Transitioning

One of the hardest problems I have blogging is transitioning posts from the political/gossipy post of the type above to the reality of Iraq like the pictures below.

Often I don't use certain pictures at certain points because the transition seems somehow wrong, or maybe even evil. That I could be talking gossipy, gossipy about Mitt Romney while the real horrors of Iraq unfold RIGHT NOW.....

But, this is the reality. This is America. This is what war looks like through the small carefully crafted windows of my television. One minute it's the horror of a bombing in Kirkuk that kills schoolgirls and a baby, and the next it's a story about American Idol.

It's no wonder that Americans are separated from this war. It's presented to them in this weird hyper reality where celebrity is just as real as death.