Robert's Stochastic thoughts

As expected, Brad has much more interesting comments on the Krugman Okrent exhange here than those below. The part that freaked me out was...

Omigod Daniel Okrent makes more of a fool of himself debating Paul Krugman than I thought possible. Like many webadicts I have been waiting...

Andrew Samwick comes close to proving a negative (too bad he was trying to prove a positive). There has been some chatter in the blogosphe...

It's official. Trent Lott coiner of the phrase "Nuclear Option" set up Senator Dr William Frist MD then compromised behind his...

Robert Waldmann’s Stalled Projects Without Co-Authors which have not been presented at informal talks the next of which might happen in Room...

I disagree with Robert Rubin who "advised the Democrats not to introduce their own plan," on social security (this is getting sca...

If anyone reads this blog regularly, he will find this vaguely related to thoughts I have. Expression cloning of a protective Leishmania an...

Rest of the West This headline in the New York Times is odd "China Backs Uzbek, Splitting With U.S. on Crackdown". It did convinc...

The compromise as transcribed from a *.pdf by pontificator at the Daily Kos I have no way of knowing that the transcription is accurate. u...

I have a bank account at the SunTrust bank and recently attempted to set up an online banking accounts (I failed). I just got the following...

Finally Dem. Congressman Robert Wexler Offers Soc. Sec. Fix Which is half elminating the FICA ceiling. Solvency, no benefit cuts, no incre...

We wouldn't want some Senator to violate Patricia Owen's constitutional right to an up or down vote by reading this report and addi...

Robert Byrd's absurd Hitler analogy may be compared to Rick Santorum's intemporate nuclear rhetoric Like Santorum, Byrd named Hitler...

Rejecting the Alternative II Elementary Statistics on the Front Page of the New York Times again. Rejecting the alternative hypothesis is an...

A Specter is haunting the low bankdwidth cybersphere-- the specter of the death of text. Emptywheel at the Daily Kos tells me I must know wh...

The "Mother of Parliaments "vs The "Worlds Greates Deliberative Body" sort of like King Kong Vs Godzilla although, in th...

Like Matt Yglesias I agree with E. J. Dionne He asks if Democrats should just say no. He concludes "To everything there is a season. T...

Speaking hypothetically Josh Marshall writes it wouldn't seem a bad deal to me if the senate Democrats were to allow up or down votes on...

Intemporate nuclear rhetoric. Nuclear means related to the gross assault on Senate rules named "the nuclear option" by Trent Lott....

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