Jim Moore is more like a smarter, richer, equally earnest version of me. He had a hugely successful run in the nineties as a business consultant and critical visionary (as in his book The Death of Competition: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems, from HarperBusiness, 1996). His on-going study of information technology and democratic development is focused on Ghana. Last April, early in the war with Iraq, Jim wrote a debut blog that drew worldwide attention and comment and bears rereading today. The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head is about the peace coalition that President Bush chose to ignore.