Mentally ill Missourian accidentally alters the course of history

You probably thought that headline was an exaggeration. You were wrong.
If you haven’t picked up Newsweek lately, this is the time to do it.
Newsweek photo of John Yettaw stopped by authorities |
They’ve got an amazing profile of Missourian John Yettaw. His family describes him as a troubled man, with a history of violence and personal tragedies, who takes his dreams to be premonitions sent by God. This year he took a trip to Burma, and gave the country’s oppressive regime an excuse to keep one of its most high-profile critics under house arrest just as her sentence was ending.