Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Bottom of the Slippery Slope. Utter contempt for human rights in Guantanamo reported today in the Washington Post and a week ago by Kari Ly...

An incomplete attempt to translate the incomplete Iraqi constitution into plain English Working from the AP partial translation here Chapter...

burying the lede in the Washington Post August 22, 2005; Page A01 Skin Cells Converted to Stem Cells Scientists' Work Could Clear Moral...

Mattew Yglesias and the English Language (a hell of a homonym) I admit that my ad homonym attacks on the always brilliant Matthew Yglesias a...

Spam Watch Don't just delete it learn from it. In 2000 I decided that the US economy was in trouble because the "pre-approved cred...

Iraqi Chemical Stash Uncovered Post-Invasion Cache Could Have Been For Use in Weapons By Ellen Knickmeyer Washington Post Foreign Service Su...

The Three R's reading and rightwing riting Captain Ed Writes No one believes at this point that the chemicals predate the fall of Saddam...

Mark Kleiman is consistently brilliant. I actually don't know from what field he specialised to be an expert on drug policy, since he s...

Kossaks on the rampage Markos Moulitsas is only recently famous, but he is willing to take on NARAL and the DLC at the same time. The Kos D...

Don't Trust Anyone Under 30 Seanet explains that people under 30 were more likely to refuse to say that US involvment in Vietnam was a ...

The amateur physicist attempts D-squared amplification in answer to a DeLong query D-squared presented the intuition brilliantly (I don'...

Josh Marshall has gone commercial Mr Marshall's, whose indifference to money made me wax poetic in a bit of this blog's archives whi...

simulspam. I am impressed at the audacity or something of sida_siori_bb714@yahoo.com who (which) managed to simultaneously spam my gmail a...

Mark Kleiman discusses Cocaine in the Po

Josh Marshall is amazed that Mickey Kaus got a fact right Wow, he's right. Now that I look, it's there as bright as day. Look at the...

Ever Heard of Clermont County Ohio ? Probably not if you are not paranoid. I was not paranoid until about 5 minutes ago. Clermont county is...

Unicef Reminds me that Niger is not just a country which didn't sell Uranium to Iraq. A critical food shortage in Niger, brought on by a...

Scuse me while I tell a lie Armando at the Daily Kos reports that "Rock legend Jimi Hendrix pretended he was gay to get out of the US ...

Thanks econgeek for a link and some intelligent comments

Is Bill Frist really that dumb or is he trying to paralyse Democrats with laughter ? Via Hunter at the Daily Kos . Rather than allow votes ...