Robert's Stochastic thoughts

More on the Monty Hall paradox. This written on April 7 2003. Monty Redux Recall, the Monty Hall paradox from “Let’s Make a Deal” an ...

Blinkered perspectives On April fools day 2003 (the day before I originally posted this which was in a Blogspot archive which died) I s...

Some of my archives appear to be missing. I think Pyra labs has solved the problem (based on an announcement) but the content seems to be l...

Well looks like the Bush administration has finally met an authority it can't push around or ignore -- Ayatolla Ali Sistani. It seems ...

I disagree with Matthew Yglesias . This is big news for me because it is the first time it has happened since I started reading his blog. ...

Whew Bush is still with us . I am not a big fan of Bush but just saying president Cheney drives chills up my spine. My sincere hones...

Iran's unelected supreme religeous guide Ayatollah Khamenei gives a lesson in Democracy . "In free elections the majority of ...

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"Men who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made" Otto Von Bismarck [quote added on November 29] ...

Hatch Hatchets Hatchet Man See how hard it is to catch a leaker when you really want to. Valerie Plame take notice.

Brad Delong is trying to understand what the post immediately below means. There I typed Brad Delong so my hits should spike. He is very p...

More on m13 and say HIV OK some background. M-13 is a virus which infects e. coli. It has a number of very useful features one of whic...

hmmm by site meter someone is reading this blog (or was a minute ago). If you are reading please e-mail me at rjw88@hotmail.com. It will m...

Dear Economist I read a typically well written highly literate face value article quite critical of Paul Krugman in your still theoretica...

See the post below for a brilliant observation by Mark Kleiman filled out to the following The Declaration of Independence II ...

Oh this is precious. Mark Kleiman notes that what goes around comes around.

The new plan for founding Iraqi democracy is up on the coalition provisional authority web site . My view is that they have got to be kid...

For anyone who is willing to download a huge pdf file, there is a very interesting poll on US public beliefs about the war in Iraq here . A...

CNN reports that Centcom commander John Abizaid said that it is clear that Saddam Hussein did not plan for guerrilla warfare in Iraq "c...

Brad Delong Writes "I thought last winter that the Bush administration would not be doing this without *hard* evidence of serious n...