Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Archbishop  Roger M. Mahony   discusses "objective eternal unchanging moral truth." When an attorney for an alleged victim sugg...

Berlusconi: "Voglio tutelare il mio onore" Inigo Montoya "I do not think that word means what you think it means".

Federal ( a ) Federal Government: Current Expenditures (FGEXPND), Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate, 1947-01-01 to 2012-...

Tory Vice Chairman Michael Fabricant attempted to change the record mid debate by deleting a tweet.  Jonathan Portes nailed him. Portes wr...

Richard Thaler is brilliant.  He noticed that     John Stewart understands economics . Yep he's got his shit together (to add some pro...

True fact: When Obama said "the solemn responsibility and awesome joy of [pause]" I thought "ripping the Republicans a new on...

You're doing OK when your critics write Klein and company stopped being liberals. They even stopped being human. The singularity—a tec...

QOTD "I suppose it’s not surprising that a wholly imaginary dead woman has attracted far more compassion than a real one at an institu...

BP stands first for Brian Plumer then for British Petroleum -- I'm pretty sure DuPont is the firm and not Pierre "Pete".  TS...

Via Steve Benen  the folks  who'll appear  on the panel about "successful communication with minorities and women," an...

1) Reasonable and reasonably honest conservative list update.  Josh Barro is very reasonable and quite honest. But is he still a conservativ...

This is an authentic screen shot of my authentic twitter feed.  Oh the omnipresent and not yet omnipotent internet works in un-mysterious wa...

I think it might be an open question whether section (k) of 31 USC § 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins is constitu...

Now the old world can address the fiscal imbalance of the new.  It seems that some of the best minds in the USA are trying to figure out how...

I just signed a petition asking Barack Obama to have the Treasury mint a $1,000,000,000,000 platinum coin. But whose face should be on th...

Left blogosphere commentary on the Fiscal cliff deal seems to me to have come in two phases. First outraged horror over $450,000/year.  The...

Via National Journal Via Kevin Drum “It’s the continuing dumbing down of the Republican Party, and we are going to be seen, more and mor...

She reported on Boehner's genius yesterday Headline (not written by her) "Republicans Put Obama in a Box".  Uh Ms Rubin it...

Yes it is the height of absurdity for me to comment on anyone else's spelling but here is a screen capture from https://petitions.whit...

Matt Yglesias has a post with an irresistible title and subtitle " Can Shinzo Abe Save Japan? The candidate with a plan to cure wh...