That's the quote of a shock trauma expert, puzzling over the ever-more-puzzling case of the assassination -- or bumping into the sunroof lever -- of Benazir Bhutto.
There are stories of hope and progress, and of delay and betrayal in New Orleans. None of them worthy of a mention as candidates left and right outlined their visions for the future last night.
After a period in which the administration's credibility on matters foreign has been tattered, why is the "incident" with Iran being reported totally out of Pentagon press releases?
Pakistan has lingered at the outer edges of our awareness, even though that country did indisputably meet the three criteria Bush invoked for the invasion of Iraq.
The decorations on the houses in my neighborhood have gone from green and red to purple, green and gold, the annual signal of the transition from "your" holiday season to "ours".
The theft of US nuclear secrets, the diverting of them to Pakistan and possibly Saudi Arabia, the involvement of Israel in the scheme -- all of these would justify as jaw-droppingly newsworthy in a rational journalistic universe.
FEMA opted to spend far more money on last-minute purchases of trailers, some of which were delivered before their interiors were allowed to "cure", thereby dissipating the formaldehyde fumes within.
The president's one paragraph about New Orleans in his State of the Union was one more than has been uttered by any of the presidential candidates in any of the debates thus far.