Man, what an effing day...I'm in a daze. Today was difficult, tomorrow may not be much better.

Picture Aushwitz. Or any holocaust museum you may have visited, filled with those arresting, nauseating pictures of emaciated bodies being kept barely alive.

Then take out all the adults in those pics - only kids.

Then pretend that we're not all on the same page about these pictures - that some people say one party was responsible for this mass atrocity, some say another.

Then pretend that not only are we all not on the same page about the emaciated kids dying by the thousands, but that we're on complete opposite ends of an 837-page book. We couldn't be further apart. And that we're still at war (of sorts) with the country where all these children are starving, wasting...dying.

Then pretend you have to report on this. Only the people on page one will punch you in the face if you say one thing, and the people on page 837 will punch you in the face if you say the other. So if you say both things, you'll basically get two punches in the face.

Meanwhile, whomever's responsible, the pictures of those kids refuse to leave your head. They just won't fucking go away....

Person who needs a stiff drink, thy name is Dickie.