Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Worst of the Web: A New Experiment in Information Retrieval James Taranto wrote this in his April 11 2005 "Best of the Web" column...

The Bolton Nomination was a very stupid move. At first it seemed that the main problem was that it was an affront to our allies. It was esp...

This post by Steve Clemons seems almost perfect to me. Clemons advises Lincoln Chafee to vote against Bolton. In this post he argues, convi...

Two out of Three aint Bad: Conservative Americans generally are not inclined to do anything for prisoners. I think this is both a crime and...

Latest House Republican Horror as reported by MICHAEL JANOFSKY in the New York Times Deep in the energy bill that was approved by a House co...

Does this post by Matthew Yglesias remind you of the comment by Robert Waldmann to this post ? I'm pathetic really. Not only is Ygles...

Broken Record Time Social Security Reform has fallen out of the news. I found no stories on the front pages of www.nytimes.com, www.washing...

Steve Clemons and TheWashingtonNot e formatting alert This is a blogosphere issue. I think Steve Clemons over at http://www.thewashingtonno...

David Brooks and the Tooth Fairy I seem to have a policy of commenting on Brooks' columns. I didn't actually manage to force myself...

Must stop writing about that dumb editorial. Must ... resist .... Temptation..... Can't .... resist A closer analogy is this. The US ...

I am still dumping on this Washington Post editorial Now I am irritated by "But if there's a lesson to be learned from the tone and...

The Washington Post has a dumb editorial Megaditto Brad DeLong and commenters especially Kharris. The Post We've been finding ourselve...

Political incorrectitude over at the SF cronicle. Jon Carroll invents a hilarious manifesto of "Unitarian Jihad". However, I th...

Glorious Traditions in Florida I really don't know who remembered the claim that the the sister of then senator Claude "Red" P...

Spellings of "Spellings" like the snow calling the sand white (pc version of pot calling the kettle black) I note two typos in the...

60% of American Catholics think women should be ordained as priests and (concidentally) 60% of American Catholics think that priests should...

VAT Suddenly a lot of people are interested in value added tax. I don't mean George Will who wants to replace the income tax with a val...

Kevin Drum is a bit bothered by public flags flying half mast for John Paul II. I work for a The Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"...

Comment on “Comment on ‘Asset Returns and Economic Growth ‘ by Baker, Delong and Krugman by N.Gregory Mankiw” by Robert Waldmann Mankiw’s ...

I agree with the Washington Post Editorial Board Conflict of interest notice: My father's income was reduced significantly by the ethics...