Robert's Stochastic thoughts

I am puzzled by this Poll in the Washington Post. I guess this is a bleg. Can anyone explain it to me ? I care because there is were very i...

In which I disagree with Kevin Drum and Matt Yglesias in one post Drum wrote I’m entirely in favor of a Social Security commission, similar...

I am surprised to have appreciated an essay on artnet by Ben Davis . It is a defence of conceptual art, but one of the best bits seems to m...

Chris Hayes is not reality based. He claims that Clinton did not attempt health care reform. He is writing about Obama's trip to Chin...

Matt Taibbi questions the patriotism of the press corps. No that's not the half of it. He says they are doubleplus ungood unpersons wh...

I love polifact.com. They are awesome wonderful and totally to blame for the fact that I won't get any work done today either. The posi...

The Turkey Blues total tail feather kicking awesomosity via Suzanne at FDL .

The following blog post which I quote in full has been banned by the US government. The Muzzle Is Off By Candace Gorman In June of this year...

Ezra Klein criticizes David Broder's astonishingly idiotic and dishonest op-ed. Kudos to Ezra for criticizing the dean of the Washington...

Get 'em well Harry !

Senator Joeseph Lieberman will lie. I am not talking about "the possibility of it" I am making an absolutely confident prediction ...

Ultimate Ballance* Bruce Bartlett writes I don't mean to suggest that Democrats are any better when it comes to the deficit, although th...

Why do employers want to continue providing health-care benefits? Ezra Klein has a theory that this is basically upper class solidarity at w...

The Washington Post -- More Catholic than the Pope The Washington Post had a front page article yesterday which began A plan to slash more t...

Health Care Reform and Caregivers Refusing Medicare Patients I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Lori Montgomery fell for (or i...

Lieberman Makes it Clear Steve Benen explains it better than I can (plus he has the full quote) I think Senator Lieberman has made it very c...

Well now I am watching history being made. The House is voting on the Stupak amendment banning any subsidies for purchase of a health care p...

History Made on Capital Hill No I'm not talking about the House of Representatives. IIRC the senate made history by voting unanimously ...

Kaplan Kratovil Confused I understand the difficulty of achieving Ballance under deadline preassure, but I think that Lori Montgomery and Sh...

Conservaspam I get a moderate amount of unsolicited e-mails from conservative organizations. For example, I just received an e-mail from Ri...