Robert's Stochastic thoughts

The Giant Rat of Sumatra is not endangered "Sundamys infraluteus is classified as lower risk-least concern by the IUCN Red List of Thr...

Neuroskeptic Notes that the Change in the Placebo Group is not a Measure of the Placebo effect.

A Classic (stolen in full) Worst. Apocalypse. Ever. Dan: If civilization collapses over credit default swaps I am going to be pissed. We...

Media Matters notes that the position that the recent stimulus bill was too small was almost completely excluded from the debate as mediated...

If not you who ? If not now when ? If not as a comment here how ? Bruce Webb has left a new comment on your post "Homeless Man With Ce...

Habeus Corpus Restored in the USA McJoan explains The SCOTUS has vacated the 4th circuit court of appeals ruling which upheld the power of P...

Wish I'd said that. Jonathan Zasloff notes the faults of people who discuss the middle east If you write or talk about the Middle East ...

Homeless Man With Cell Phone Searching for something (anything) to bitch about when it comes to the Obama's, Andrew Malcolm seizes on Mi...

Polling Arithmetic NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Bill McInturff (R). Feb. 2...

Ndank ndank mooy japp golo ci naay March 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s economic advisers are increasingly concerned about the U....

Lesser Flees Upon Rush's Back to Bite Him Rush Limbaugh has moved from just another Republican to the Republican boss man by staking out...

Can't Help Myself from Dumping on Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander and on George Will This is a teeny tiny point. It appears ...

Governor Tim Pawlenty Violates the Constitution He said Secretary of State Clinton, in China about a week ago, [was] publicly pleading with ...

Matt Yglesias asks for "better finance policy and more effective international coordination of anti-recession efforts." Quite fran...

How to get EFCA passed This post is going to be extraordinarily confused even for me. Update: However, a well argued version of this post ha...

Stipulated Atrios Writes If I hadn't spent the day watching CNBC it's possible I would have the energy to see if Jonah Goldberg said...

I read it for the articles .

Wish I'd said that I do run regressions, and I'll report some of these on occasion. But it's a misconception to think that simpl...

Brad DeLong contrasts the articles on Accountability Now by Same Stein and Jim Rutenberg in a post entitled "Trying to Reduce the Power...

The Jet Set Newt Gingrich just can't get over his obsession with airplanes. About 23 hours ago, he complained that Nancy Pelosi is fly...