Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Kevin Drum notes that Steve Benen is impressed at how unenthusiastic Republicans are about their presidential candidates 52% rate the field ...

Freddster (noun): Fraudster who profits from conflict of interest at Freddie Mac (the knife). Jesse Eisinger, pf ProPublica and Chris Arno...

Wow politifact has rated 4 claims by Mitch Daniels and didn't rate any as better than false ( one was worse - pants on fire). http://ww...

Simon Wren-Lewis writes that he is an anti-anti-Keynesian not a Keynesian. I want to abolish the Keynesian school. Keynesian analysis shou...

Language:A Key Mechanism of Control Bleg In this excellent essay Timothy Egan wrote “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.” [skip] ...

Matthew Yglesias goes over to the shades of grey side I think. I haven't read the post. I just read a post on the post by Drum and f...

ResurgentRomney quotes Steve Singiser on ResurgentRomney ? "The evidence lies, as it often does"

Mitt Romney LDS yes LSD no Wolf Blitzer asking Romney to repeat the charge. “I haven’t seen the ad, so I’m sorry, I don’t get to see...

Politifact When is true not true ? It isn't just private sector jobs growth. They also rate "Right now, American oil product...

The claim that Bill Adair doesn't blow goats is mostly true He wrote this In our first couple of years, we treated many of those cla...

Mitt Headroom

What is the name of this crook? Is it ok if someone reliably lies all the time ? Logically one can get the truth out of a reflexive liar b...

Pete Townshend and Paul Ryan - Behind Blue Eyes II No one knows what it's like to be the bad man To be the sad man Behind blue eyes ...

Top Ten Things Wrong with "Let's Provide the New York Times With a List of our Top Ten Lies" The bad Kevin Drum who is a kne...

Johannas von Quiggin take note Rick Santorum has no use for the Ivy League, or the economists produced therein. (He also expressed doubts ...

Mr Ballance Himself Has an interesting column The Ballance balance pun which I flog relentlessly is due to Chris Cillizza who is not to be...

Watch this arabic language McDonalds ad. To understand Arabic views of US capitalism, gender relations, Big Macs and Meat Loaf, ... oh hell...

The Presidential Campaign has Been Going on too Long I read "MIT" as "Mitt" here "MIT’s Light Speed Camera Captures...

All evidence from the debates notwithstanding, there is a Republican with a brain. Asif Mandvi, reporter for the "Daily Show," tri...