Deadly politics, etc.

Well, duh! See what happens when you call countries members of an “Axis of Evil?” “Pakistan and Yemen have been very cooperative with U.S. efforts to hunt al-Qaida down, Rumsfeld said, but Iran and Iraq have not.”
This doesn’t seem possible: there’s a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan named Posthumus. Now, that would seem to be a drawback, unless you’re running in Chicago or old Tammany districts, but…
This is a moving post-attack essay about the “what-if” games our minds play on us; it’s written by a doctor, and appears in the current issue of JAMA.