Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Oxymoron of the Day Althouse, for instance, is by any objective measure deeply shallow Heh indeed, but is she shallowly deep ? This, howeve...

It's all a Commie plot "Lula recalled that he has been pushing ethanol on Bush for some time." So that's it. Lula (slogan...

Anonymity Squared Digest In which I compare and attempt to contrast the Washington Post and the Bush administration John Solomon and Barton ...

Can One be Anti Union and Egalitarian Mickey Kaus is neither and Matthew Yglesias says that he is, at least, coherant . I respond I don...

The Huey Long March to Power The all tax cuts all the time strategy lost popularity especially because the tax cuts were so regressive. Waa...

Sleeper I just saw "Sleeper" for the second time. I saw it when it was released in 1973 or so. I found it very funny then. Much...

All quiet on the Western Front of the War on Easter Both John Gibson and Brad DeLong have complaints about warlike activities in Walnut Cree...

Dan Eggen and Paul Kane show how it's done Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said that "a private and collegial convers...

What I was wrong about in March 2003 In response to a challenge by Brian Fleming (who really needs the traffic right now) . I thought that ...

Libby Convicted I was glad when I read of the verdict, but reading the story I felt sorry for Liddy who is clearly taking the fall for Chene...

I have been weighed in the balance and found non wanting Hello, Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that i...

In Which I attempt to zing Mark Kleiman who wrote "After all, Jefferson himself — no orthodox believer — chose to frame his assertion o...

Mark Thoma asks an Important Question via Kevin Drum Is a return to unions the best solution to the market power imbalance? Should we return...

A good story bylined by John Solomon (and Dan Eggen but that's no surprise) in The Washington Post One of the complaints came from Sen. ...

Kevin Drum linked to an interesting old post on Sir Richard Mottram's eloquence and I happened upon this remarkable artifact WANTED: FUN...

Brad Squared Digest: My thoughts on the Brad Setser Brad DeLong non debate. Brad DeLong notes that Brad Setser agrees with Brad DeLong abou...

The Waxman Cometh House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Henry Waxman, D-Calif. ooooooh I do like the sound of that. Let me type ...

Hmmmm I'm not paranoid and don't want to fuel Iran hatred, but do you see anything suspicious about this photograph of the Majlis ?...

My thoughts on the Faux Delong Debate I have no particular expertise, will do no research and am totally totally biased. The debate is roug...

Shorter Glenn Kessler The intelligence and facts are being fixed around the new policy The old fact is that Clinton's North Korea policy...