Dateline: In the Shire, Indiana, 10 September 2005

Running various errands with kids. Gearing up for the creative expression that will be the new joint Barnett-DeAngelis brief that starts merging our analysis of the way the world works and how the private sector's role in a future worth creating will be not just large, but leading (gotta preserve the resilient Core to grow it).

Still hotter than Hades here. I foresee my pool time in my immediate future and a hard copy of the Sunday Times on Nona's backyard deck tomorrow.

[And indeed, this is what happened, delaying this post series til Sunday.]

Here's the daily catch:

■ A description of China reaching out to the U.S.

■ Mubarek's "mandate" is really just a breathing space; watch the economy instead

■ Koziumi is the Gorbachev of Japan

■ U.S. believes it can isolate Iran with New Core powers; it is wrong

■ Bush gets around to sort-of-almost-but-not-quite-dumping Brown at FEMA

■ China idol-izes America

■ The SysAdmin isn't a posse, nor just the rancher's hired hands