photos
I finally managed to properly integrate my photo album in this site. So I’m a happy man now! Check out the photos link above.
I can even integrate them into posts now, apparently: 
(Zuma beach)
Add comment July 22nd, 2007
Archive for July, 2007
laffer curve
I guess I’ll be a successful lecturer in research methods if I can get my students not to do this!
Add comment July 17th, 2007
medieval political science
Today I stumbled on a brilliant little essay, writer unknown, describing how international relations today is analogous to Medieval society: “A Medieval Sociology of International Relations“. Pretty funny stuff.
Add comment July 7th, 2007
Orwell on the English language
Yesterday someone pointed me towards an apparently famous short essay by George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, which he wrote in 1946. The essay is truly brilliant and I can highly recommend you all (well, if anyone reads this blog!) read it.
The most brilliant quote in the essay is the paraphrasing of this text from the Ecclesiastes:
“I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
And Orwell’s paraphrase in modern English:
“Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.”
The latter sentence sounds like a quote directly from my thesis! So definitely something to work in …
Add comment July 2nd, 2007