The American Century is Still Over

You read it here first, but now the CIA has decided to back me up.

Mapping the Global Future

Warning, it's a PDF, it's 119 pages, and no doubt spy satellites are photographing you right through your building walls as you download it, using classified X-ray vision technology derived from the space aliens at Roswell.

If you prefer, Fred Kaplan in Slate has a summary. Fred Kaplan

Tomorrow morning, Cervantes is off for his own personal medical sociological experience, involving his parents and their extraodinarily archetypal, exemplary, and illustrative issues. I may not check in until Sunday or Monday. Meanwhile, keep those cards and letters coming.