I've been feeling vaguely down today, and in the middle of a nice, hot evening run, I think I pinned down the source: I've spent the last three days obsessing about politics, on every level. Office politics, Portland politics, Oregon politics, national politics. And most of the news on these various fronts has not been to my liking. It's made me even more ornery than usual.

So I'm swearing it off for a while. Except for the monumentally stupid federal income tax cut we're about to pass -- which I need to understand as part of the basic duties of my job -- I'm going to ignore politics until I've spent some time in some more uplifting, less frustrating spaces.