■"Adultery a Crime? The Turks Think Again and Say No: No Support Gained In the Parliament," by Susan Sachs, New York Times, 15 September 2004, p. A3.
■"Jakarta Bombing Linked to Al Qaeda: Morning Blast Kills Nine, Wounds 150," by Alan Sipress and Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 10 September 2004, p. A18.
It almost sounds like a Jeff Foxworthy routine, but if your parliament still has to debate whether or not adultery is a crime worth throwing women in jail over, then you’re a Seam State.
Why? You’re Seam because you still have idiotic debates like that. But you’re also right on the cusp of the Core because—dang it!—you got a parliament full of sensible enough people to blow that piece of nonsense right out of the water.
That’s what I mean by Seam State—could go either way.
But I also mean it as a state that’s at the front line between Core and Gap, or logically located where you’re going to find the violence that comes from globalization penetrating relatively traditional societies. In other words, it’s where the bombs will mostly go off.
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