Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Boris Worm et al discover. the advantages of having an unappetizing name.

Quadruple meta Matt Yglesias goes triple meta in his blog post "Stay First-Order on Health Care." writing "It’s difficult, o...

Beware Doug Your friends from 1050 Mass ave (where you had this cartoon, unmodified on your office door) are getting restless. update: The...

JOhn Donne would have said Go and catch a falling star get child by a mandrake root and I'll find you a congressman Republican and fair....

Let's make a deal. Pelosi needs the votes of about 15 blue dogs to pass health care reform. They claim that such a vote would be bad fo...

Basic Football Terminology To Red Dog (alternative phrase for to blitz) linebacker crosses line of scrimmage attempting to sack opposing qu...

Sauce Goose Gander ? The New York Times continues its policy of declaring the Senate to have rejected a bill when a majority of Senators vot...

What is Google ads trying to tell me ? I tend to ignore the google ads on this site, but the latest was Wife Adultery Find out why so many w...

There is an Important Article on the Interrogation of Abu Zubaidah by Joby Warrick and Peter Finn in the July 19 Washington Post. The story ...

Free Speech at Berkeley Bit sad that U Cal Berkeley (yes that U Cal Berkeley) relies on imported protesters from Australia but I love the ac...

Broad Tent The Democratic party has a long history of extreme ideological diversity. Recently Democrats seem to have reached some agreement...

Life Imitates Art (I suggest that it's time for Senator Sessions to Take the Money are Run) Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking t...

Pay to [read the] play. Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance is a very honest man. His University is paying his "good friend" Albert...

Trivia Question Where did Trivial Pursuit get those cute little illustrations ? How many of them exist ? Where were they first published ?...

Did Matthew Yglesias Just Insinuate that Senator Jim DeMint is a Communist ? He wrote "DeMint ... confuses Nazis and Social Democrats ...

What is Balance ? I realize that while I have repeatedly defined Ballance, I have yet to offer a definition of balance. I realized that thi...

The Absurdity of Hope -- More on French Exams Matthew Yglesias was recently alarmed by hard questions on the French Bac writing "Appare...

Black Perino Cantor Schoeder Duncan Black is much amused by Dana Perino's theory that women never cheat. Perino While I am not able to ...

Now *This* is a Washington Post Headline I Can Believe In Topless Women, Headless Prime Minister Mouthpiece Theater | Silvio Berlusconi'...

Classic Ballance "Opinions on Shape of Earth Differ" has been surpassed. The current top parody of Ballance in the Washington Pos...