I was thinking of setting up a new blog entitled "An Arrogant Jerk's Stochastic Thoughts" so I could let it all hang out and yet preserve deniability.
but I decided that I already post as an arrogant jerk here and besides almost no one reads this blog.
The assumption that almost no one reads this blog has caused some trouble when I got very drunk and wrote
something rude about something Felix Salmon wrote based on unkind paraphrases, and without reading what he actually wrote.
Somehow he found out, and I had to apologise.
I was very drunk. I wish that I could claim that the typing of offending statement ".... I recalled
taht Salmon had said ... " suggests anything unusual about my blood ethanol concentration.