Robert's Stochastic thoughts

I am not favorably impressed by Paul Krugman's latest Op-Ed Basically I think he doesn't recognise the genius of Barack Obama's ...

DDT thoughts I promised on crooked timber that I would post this, so to keep my word I will even though it is silly. It is my ddtophilic re...

HTML Mencken aka Retardo Montalban is dumping on Brad DeLong again. Politically, I think of people in the professions, some of them moving i...

John McCain Vs the Constitution It is not surprising that John McCain disagrees with the Supreme court decision in Boumediene et al vs USA t...

NASA and The New York Times gotta watch their language On the latest Suttle Mission John Schwarz quotes and writes “We’re confident that the...

Duncan Black is against the donut hole plan Donuts I suppose I'm in the against column when it comes to Obama's donut hole plan for...

Constitution Saved by the Warren Court -- Vincent Warren that is. He is the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and ...

David Kurtz notes that CNN actually presents US voters with some useful information. Clear as a bell indeed. For CNN it is outstanding. Als...

Women Fight for Right to Join al Qaeda (AP) Muslim extremist women are challenging al Qaeda's refusal to include - or at least acknowled...

The Seven Percent Solution or 0.07 licensed to Bill Matthew Yglesias notes that 7% of US residents describe their ethnicity as "Americ...

Andrew Northrup catches Fred Hiatt making an inaccurate quotation in the Washington Post I clicked the links. He's right. My *s. Hiat...

Fantapolitica Indeed If the US election were decided by Italians, Barack Obama would win. He leads John McCain 70 % to 15 % in the latest D...

The Social Effects of Unexpected Income When a bunch of dutch people with the same postal code (nearby residence) win the lottery, their nei...

Brad DeLong publishes his undergraduate thesis on the web. I ask why he is publishing recent work instead of the really good stuff he wrote ...

Pssst Pass it On. Totally devastating

Self Identified Republicans want Class War US citizens strongly support the Democrats position on taxes. Self described Republicans agree w...

They Just don't make Sex Scandals like the used to TPMuckraker reports Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is getting divorced Dawn Gibbons arg...

FactCheck Check I haven't been keeping up with the Washington Post Fact Check, but this is too good to skip. topay Michael Dobbs compare...

Rep. Jerry Moran gets a Brain Scout Finch notes President Bush is on the fundraising trail for unrepentent Republicans, with an appearance t...

Samefacts Bug Wapo Disgrace Comments over at the reality based community (Mark Kleiman mayor founder chairman and chief poobah) seem to be o...