The Singing Prime Minister
Belgium is a strange country. A very strange country, as a matter of fact.
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Notes of a trailer park political scientist
Belgium is a strange country. A very strange country, as a matter of fact.
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Holy cows: I’ll have to admit that this year’s Tour de France is as fascinating on track as well as off-track.
Okay, following Floyd Landis’s resurrection last year, the latest piece of news was hardly surprising. But still…
(And the answer to the obvious question is: No, I wouldn’t be surprised if…)
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The alien invasion reaches Umeå. Yes, according to local media an unsuspecting gardener encountered a suspected snail among his plants
Be afraid! Be very afraid!
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The Chemical Express – that was funny. Maybe we should start calling the cyclists “The Chemical Brothers”? It’s really annoying that the Tour de France is so exciting both on and outside of the track this year.
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Ezra Klein’s post “The Chicken and the Edwards” turned out not to be about the you-know-what…
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Due to spamming, I’ve had to change my e-mail address at the domain jacobchristensen.name. Please check the page “contact” to see the new address.
If you’ve been in touch with me through my gmail-address or through Flickr, you don’t have to change annything. But you might want to consider changing your e-mail application.
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Yes, the Wall Street Journal is statistically challenged.
But what a great specimen for methodology courses in the social sciences.
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And just as you thought that July was safe, that guy Rasmussen had to destroy everything!
Ploegleider Erik Breukink was dolblij. ,,De dag begon voor ons niet zo goed. We zaten met niets mee voorin. Dit is een sterk staaltje. De concurrentie is wat laat in actie gekomen. Rasmussen had zes minuten voorsprong aan de voet van de laatste klim. Dat is veel.”
Politiken, NRC Handelsblad (see quote), even the BBC has the details.
Now all of Denmark will be in agony until he loses the yellow jersey or reaches Paris, whatever happens first.
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