John Robb, who writes thinky things about Global Guerillas, also has a different site that's more random things he's watching. I've quickly become a fan. Here's a neat little post about how the creation of the EU meta-state is making the old countries sort of obsolete, and intersting things are happening. Particularly interesting given the feudal history of much of Europe as smaller political entities.

Perhaps when we've finished playing house with the Daddy State, we can get rolling on some of this decentralization and neo-regionalism here too. Strong metro/county/state government with a higher level Federal system to do some load-balancing, maintain national infrastructure, etc. It's all about the network. That kind of benevolent Federal system would really want to be hemispheric in its fullness. Not likely in my lifetime, but I think it might be nice.