Monday, December 10, 2007

"Things can always get worse." -- Cormac McCarthy, in Suttree

I had drafted a post on a very personal sadness today, but I think I will defer to a more public and profound one that unfolded only two and a quarter miles from where I sit typing this in my home:

Sun Dec 9, 9:28 PM ET
DENVER (Reuters) - Three people were shot to death and six were wounded in Colorado on Sunday in two church-related shootings in the U.S. Christian heartland.