Brief Update

by Rant December 10, 2007

It’s been some time since I’ve gone this long between posts. That’s due to ongoing work on that other writing project, which is nearing completion. Have no fear, faithful readers, I’ll be back with another full-length post in the next few days. With any luck, I’ll have the vast majority of the whole project wrapped […]

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A Few Words From Dr. Fuentes

by Rant December 6, 2007

While I warm up for tonight’s work on that other writing project (18K words and counting, 7K to go), a couple of articles about Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes (the doctor at the center of the Operacion Puerto scandal) at CyclingNews.com caught my eye. An article posted today has the good doctor saying: “When I arrived in […]

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Ain’t Misbehavin’ — Until The Next Time

by Rant December 6, 2007

I had this sinking feeling when I tried to log into the administrative side of this site this morning, only to be greeted by a message that the IP address that I was trying to log in from was on a blacklist because of some sort of malicious activity. Never did manage to log in […]

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Back To Basics

by Rant December 3, 2007

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at Trust But Verify on the subject of whether the lab documentation package that France’s anti-doping laboratory, LNDD, provided to the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) at the beginning of the Floyd Landis case contains information about various standard operating procedures. The latest round goes over what documentation exists, […]

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Even More Required Reading

by Rant November 30, 2007

A new bit of information has surfaced over at Trust But Verify (tip o’ the hat to regular reader Larry, who pointed out this article in a comment a short while ago) related to how France’s anti-doping laboratory, LNDD, conducted the tests which are at issue in the doping case against Floyd Landis. “Mr. Idiot” […]

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A Note About Comments

by Rant November 29, 2007

We interrupt this space to bring you a note about comments. As regular readers know, paragraph breaks within comments haven’t been displaying correctly. That appears to have been corrected, with the help of reader Jean C. and a couple of others. It may not be a perfect solution, but you shouldn’t need to use any […]

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