Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Ballance at the Washington Post meets www.washingtonpost.com THE TAKE | There's reason for both parties to feel good about debate betwee...

The Lazy Caucus In contrast to the (alleged) crazy semi caucus (see below) McJoan is making sense. The post explains her arguments that we...

A Crazy Caucus Josh Marshall has an excellent article on the health care psychodrama. All his sources are anonymous (of course) but he make...

I remember back in 1975 reading the grafitto "Don't blame me. I'm from Massachusetts." I do Not want to have to write ...

Clash Of The Titans Krugman vs Glennzilla . I don't know whether to make popcorn or cry. They are debating the case of Jonathan Gruber...

Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo www.washingtonpost.com Headline guy part N I have criticized him, her or them a lot, so I should say that...

McClatchey Fail So I was just telling my sister how much better McClatchey is than the NY Times or the Washington Post and Hannah Allam tota...

Gender Partisan Geographic Split Zero male Republican Senators vote for cloture on the defence appropriations bill. All Democratic Senators...

Matthew Yglesias is much to kind to Senator Conrad Conrad argues the house better do what he wants in the confererence committee because it ...

Nate Silver vs Jon Walker Jon Walker argues that the kill the bill left believes, with reason, that if the current Senate Health Care bill ...

I have a very high opinion of Glenn Greenwald. There is a debate in the left blogosphere over the current version of the Senate Health Care...

Matthew Yglesias's Memory Problems II Yglesias writes "I don’t think anyone seriously disputes that one thing the Bush administrati...

Matthew Yglesias has a Memory Lapse He writes Something I feel I should point out even though it probably won’t convince anyone, is that a l...

Here I go Again Criticizing Paul Krugman Again I agree with Krugman and am quibbling. In this case I quibbling about theory due to Krugman ...

In Which I Disagree with Paul Krugman about the Minimum Wage I winced typing that title, since it is not wise to disagree with Paul Krugman ...

What to do with Health Care Reform in the Senate ? The post below was not at all constructive. I have a coulda woulda shoulda proposal whic...

Digby Suggests that Obama might be Digby She wrote "If Obama and Reid actually formed their strategy around the idea that "Lieberm...

Why Doesn't The Washington Post Replace Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery with Ezra Klein ? They would save money. He already gets a ...

Talk All Night or Two Out of Three Ain't Bad ? Handicapping the Senate (as if it weren't handicapped enough already). It seems to be...

Washington Post Headline Flip Flop www.washingtonpost.com has a new headline and abstract for their article on the latest from the CBO. The...