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Seriously ... I had to buy this magazine because there's a really good article in there by Thomas P.M. Barnett, not to mention some interesting think-peices by Jeffrey Sachs and others.

I mean, as soon as I can bring myself to turn the cover page over ... I might get around to reading them. But seriously ... it wasn't the sultry blonde on the cover. It had nothing to do with that.

Oh, who am I kidding.

UPDATE: OK, I did actually read the Barnett article. I'll have to come up with an actual response to it after the Scarlett Johansson images fade from my eyelids, but the short version is a little good and a little bad. I like Barnett's writing style enough to appreciate the informal tone of his serious policy prescriptions. I like how he weaves globalization together with a consistent foriegn policy outlook, but I'm not entirely down with that whole "Letting Iran into the Nuclear Club" idea he leads off with. Not that trashing the idea is as simple as I'd like. Barnett covers some intricacies that merit attention even if he does seem to push democracy promotion a bit further down the to-do list than even I'd prefer.

Back to the inside photos of Johansson now .......