Slaughter and sacrifice; celebrities and gadgets

You know that feeling you get, where it's not as if anything has changed in what you fundamentally value, or even that you value it less, but the strength has gone from your arms and your sinews have gone slack, and the synapses inside your skull no longer recognise dopamine and all you can say or think about anything is 'so what?'.

Want a dose? Read this by John Derbyshire. It's on his own site, maybe because NRO still has some will to live, if only to insult Hilary Clinton.