uma desgraça tende a anular a outra e nós, a esquecer, por exemplo, como vai a vida em badgá. obviamente quem mora lá não tem esse luxo e nada parece ter mudado muito. bagdah burning é um belo blog que já tinha recomendado e voltei a ele esses dias. a garota que escreve está "comemorando" dois anos de relatos da guerra e anda meio mesmerizada com a invasão de programação americana na tv. ela encontra humor suficiente para propor isso:

Furthermore, I don?t understand the worlds fascination with reality shows. Survivor, The Bachelor, Murder in Small Town X, Faking It, The Contender? it?s endless. Is life so boring that people need to watch the conjured up lives of others?

I have a suggestion of my own for a reality show. Take 15 Bush supporters and throw them in a house in the suburbs of, say, Falloojeh for at least 14 days. We could watch them cope with the water problems, the lack of electricity, the check points, the raids, the Iraqi National Guard, the bombings, and- oh yeah- the ?insurgents?. We could watch their house bombed to the ground and their few belongings crushed under the weight of cement and brick or simply burned or riddled with bullets. We could see them try to rebuild their life with their bare hands (and the equivalent of $150)?

I?d not only watch *that* reality show, I?d tape every episode.