Sounds like an intriguing alt-history read. Thanks for the suggestion.

Very interesting, thanks.

I wonder if in that world santorum = 'that frothy mix of liquified bodily matter resulting from an incompetent suicide bombing failure'?

I liked "Set This House in Order" quite a bit, "Bad Monkeys" even more, and look forward to this quite eagerly.

Interesting idea...

Part bizarro-If The South Had Won The Civil War, part mirror-Red Dawn.

FWIW, the original ITSHWTCW article may have been the only time I ever cracked open the cover of Look magazine. We were faithful readers of Time and Life in my youth.