The cicadas are humming, the pool is fantastic, and I'm blogging from Nona's backyard deck
Sunday, August 28, 2005 at 1:46PM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

Dateline: Nona's place, Terra Haute, Indiana, 28 August 2005

I am really glad we moved to Indiana. I've met more nice and polite people in one month than I did in living 20 years on the East Coast. I guess I was simply imprinted too deeply by my childhood to find any charm out East.


No offense to all the Bush haters, but I understand why the guy stays out of DC as much as possible. I would do the same as president.


No great slight meant for Easterners. I guess I just proved that you can take the boy outta the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest outta the boy.


But the big thing is simply access to family: at Nonaís the past three weekends and at my Momís for Labor Day. Then someday soon, our own home as a place for others to visit.



But enough sociology. I want another dip in the pool before we head back to our collective prison cell.


Here's the daily catch, all from Nona's DELIVERED NYT! (I have discovered, for the second time, that the NYT doesn't deliver to my zip back in Indy, but I fear not, as my little neck of the woods is growing):



The winning strategy in Iraq, the winning Army in Iraq

Trading soldiers' lives for election-year votes


Beijing is too busy to invade Taiwanóuntil 2008 at least


Africa's answers are found down below


Hamas votes for extinction


The revolution will be unmanned--finally


Want connectivity, want the content too


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