Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 17 June 2005

Heading out the door with family to milk some cows at dude farm in Vermont this weekend. For a kid from Wisconsin who worked some summers on a farm, this seems odd in the extreme, but my kids are psyched.

This is our mini-summer vacation, besides the move.

Got this Google alert via my webmaster Critt and wanted to post before I left. BusinessWeek puts out summer reading list piece and cites PNM as one to get!

Here's the citation:

Will wars make such concerns seem trivial? For a vision of how U.S. strategic policy is likely to evolve, take a look at The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (Berkley, $16). Author Thomas P.M. Barnett, a strategic researcher at the U.S. Naval War College and "a savvy prognosticator," according to reviewer Stan Crock, says future conflicts will not simply involve Islam vs. the West, but will be contests between those nations tied to a global economy (the Functioning Core) and those that aren't (the Non-Integrating Gap). Trouble spots, not surprisingly, include much of Africa, the Balkans, parts of Asia, the Caribbean, as well as the Islamic crescent. Barnett proposes a three-pronged response, ranging from occasional "preemption" of threatening regimes to economic efforts to reduce poorer societies' "disconnectedness."

Find the full article at: www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_26/b3939125.htm