Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For

Had lunch yesterday with Jenn at a sports bar – she wanted a salad, I of course wanted to watch hoops – and we had the jarring, and somewhat disturbing experience of watching 3 different basketball games simultaneously with coverage of U.S. forces brutally bombing Baghdad. It was a queasy sensation, watching something on television – which always makes things seem slightly unreal – in which I understood that people, innocent people, were dying. And at the same time, enjoying and being excited about college basketball, which at a time like this seems awfully immaterial (but at the same time so necessary, so as to allow me not to think so much about the horrors going on in Iraq).