Down and out in the Horse Heaven Hills

Maybe it’s because it’s the first full week of the new academic year and its attendant weariness.

Maybe it’s the fact that I’m getting sick. (Gotta love those head colds).

Maybe it’s because I spend too much time reading materialistic horsefeathers from the likes of Kos and Myers and the absurd, “spiritual” Pastor Dan, not to mention the beyond-pathological Amanda Marcotte.

Maybe I’m in despair over the future of our country.

I can’t tell.

So, I’ll just refer you to two essays, one more of a rant by Rick Moran, and the other by the Anchoress as food-for-thought.