Month: June 2004

Another Uzbekistan Post.

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Edward has already covered the major bit of world news that I was going to blog on and nothing leaped out at me on the domestic political front*, so I’m going to do some quick links then hit the sack. First off, Argus (my go-to blog on all things Uzbek) has two posts up that … Read more

Not dead…

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…just went to go see Shrek 2. Sweet Jeebus, was that a hysterical movie. I was frankly half-certain that it was going to suck, but I was happily proved to be wrong. I still don’t want to see a third one, though. There’s a limit to how many times you can go to that particular … Read more

Progress

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I was just thinking the other day about how world events have continued to move faster than we expect them to over the past half century. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the relatively peaceful end of the Soviet Union, and now, ahead of schedule, an interim government is sworn in in Iraq, including the … Read more

Fun with Statistics

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UPDATE: Constant Readers Phil and Slartibartfast took all the fun out of this by revealing that this data has (have?) been thoroughly debunked (see here and here), thus rendering this little more than petty partisan wishful thinking. Feel free to consider this an open thread then in which to get out any snarky comments you’ve been holding back (bearing in mind the posting rules).

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