Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Lying Liar Lies about Lies Romney strategist shows reckless disregard for the truth (which should be the headline under surprising news stor...

The DFHs are Going Too Far I have my vices. Lots of them. One is occasionally reading the Rude Pundit. But these OWS hippy flower childre...

Jeopardy Slim and none. Question after the link.

Beyond Parody Does Steoen Colbert have the world's easiest job or the hardest ? He decided to parody a request for an advisory opinion ...

OK it's official -- Obama is determined to do the opposite of anything Krugman advises. President Obama says aloha to Hawaiian shirt tra...

Department of WTF !?!? The usually well informed Jonathan Bernstein writes "the Bush years [snip] the Minerals Management Service [sni...

Forget the Women's world Cup. We are beating the Japanese where it really counts Robot Soccer Also I've never seen so many players s...

When will Robotic Beings Rule the World ? While the final triumph of the robots is inevitable (they keep getting better and better while we ...

Shorter meets QOTD QOTD "The election seems to pit the immovable object against the irresistible force — except, kind of, the opposite....

Josh Marshall wins the internet Yeah yeah I know "dog bites man" but this post is for the ages THE PRODUCERS What if you ran for p...

Comment on Drum on the 60 vote Senate Kevin Drum wrote Like it or not, the reality of congressional politics has changed. The Senate is now ...

Second post on Drum on Filibusters (this is not a filibuster -- no one has to read all this junk before they can decide something) Druum adv...

I hate hate hate the new Thinkprogress format. I can't seem to comment on Yglesias. He waved a red flag in front of this bull with a po...

Second post on One article in the Washington Post. Using the uninverted pyramid approach, I will discuss something which actually matters th...

Paul Kane's and Scott Clement's understanding of statistics is essentially as low as possible. They wrote Only 3 percent of American...

Who Said it "The peace-at-any-price party would no doubt muster strong at the Congress. That party would fain leave Russia alone in the...

Who said it ? "Everything for me and nothing for anyone else, for such is the vile maxim of the masters of mankind"

I really hate the new ThinkProgress format. For one thing, I can't comment on Matt Yglesias anywhere that anyone reads. I can't st...

Hirohito Award Winner In honor of the emperor who, on 14 August 1945, said "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan...

Jon Chait has a very good post on the class and perceptions of class war. He notes that the vast majority of US adults support higher taxes...