Robert's Stochastic thoughts

RealClear Gallup Anomaly Recently I have been compulsively going to www.realclearpolitics.com for the latest polls. Right now they show a ...

Intellectual work induces excessive calorie intake Quebec City, September 4, 2008— A Université Laval research team has demonstrated that i...

Unusual, Extraordinary or Unique In an article in the New York Times by Jim Rutenberg. But the campaign’s attacks on the news media have be...

Proof Palin Lied in the Washington Post Also Maria Comella wins the all time faccia di bronza (chutzpa in Italian) award "This trooper ...

Sarah Palin Elitist Snob Glenn Greenwald notes the first Nexis hit for "Sarah Palin" Gov. Palin's first statement quoted in th...

Digby has a chain e-mail from someone who claims be from Wasilla AK and who has many criticisms of Sarah Palin. One in particular would be...

The awesome open mike discussion of Palin in which we find what Murphy and Noonan really think transcript Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots ...

Joe Leiberman Dunned Anita Dunn notes "the continued moral degeneration of Joe Lieberman on display for the entire country to watch....

The 25th Column or Rumors off I have heard a rumor that the left blogosphere was full of a rumor recently. For people who have lives, I wou...

Woman holding flower pepper sprayed by a Police officer in Minneapolis/St Paul http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/09/01/pepper.mpg My react...

Incoherent Takes one to know one. The Washington Post Editorial Board accuses John McCain of having "failed to offer an wholly coheren...

Foreign films, Western Cultural Influence, and Divorce in Japan. by Tilman Tacke and Robert Waldmann Globalization has caused a decrease in ...

Profile in Courage (beefy very beefy) Ah he just walked off screen. Here http://edition.cnn.com/video/live/live.html?stream=stream4 is was...

Democracy^2 Nate Silver polls readers asking whether he should subtract the average convention bounce from polls before running them throug...

Imported Trolls My posts never have as many comments as I would like (I don't even get much spam). I am a guest blogger over at angrybe...

Strange Doctrines formerly known as meta and meta (half and half) A strange and very nice blog whose author, Michael Drake, just blogrolled ...

McCain Campaign Emergency Room John Goodman has a proposal to end the problem of uninsured people in the USA Mr. Goodman, who helped craft S...

Brad DeLong agrees with Matthew Yglesias This tends to uhm strongly suggest that they are both right, but I beg to differ. The question is w...

John McCain is Doubling Down, Upping the Ante, Playing Double or Nothing but at least he isn't and Metaphrs From the now famous Time int...

Interesting Article Discovering What Al Gore Said Last Month In today's New York Times Matthew Wald notes that US ability to use wind a...