Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Tom Tommorrow has to write tomorrow's cartoon yesterday to keep his right wing nutjob characters ahead of US Senators.

Only now do we learn of Kevin Drum's personal interest in Antitrust enforcement actions regarding Apple. On Mar. 25, 2014 9:58 AM GMT *...

Now Kevin Drum agrees students shouldn't be forced to have facebook accounts . Again I agree. But he doesn't seem to have attended...

Kevin Drum cankily complains "If Democrats Want to Appeal to the Working Class, They Really Need Some Policies That Benefit the Working...

Recently Ed Kilgore seemed to me to declare independence from the DLC (saying something about traditional liberalism being both more vulnera...

Jonathan Chait wrote "The Democratic version of idealism emerged during and after the Clinton administration," This statement imp...

Karen Tumulty wrote a good article including one bad sentence on the Republican all the eggs in the Obamacare basket case strategy. ...

The wikipedia lives up to it's name. Earlier today, the capo* of the Sinaloa Cartel El Chapo Guzman was arrested in Mazatlan MEXICO CI...

Glenn Kessler noted that the latest ad presenting an alleged Obamacare victim doesn't add up right. Koch funded "Americans for Pr...

I have a more critical take here , but I want to note that Glenn Kessler did a great fact checking job figuring out the maximum possible cos...

I mean that he loves the phrase "both sides". This fact check is pretty much "Opinions on shape of planet differ. Both side...

I need a metaphor and no one is answering at metaphor customer service. I need a nuancing partner for weasel word. A weasel word is a qua...

I managed to resist commenting over at Krugman's blog but not here I think Krugman didn't go far enough. I think the heuristic ...

Post deleted because Coberly wouldn't enjoy reading it and no one else would care.

Commenting on Smith, Krugman wrote "real business cycle theorists ... aren’t like French generals getting ready to fight World War I...

Smith quotes House "We now know more about the details of price setting than any other field in economics. "--House I actually d...

This is getting out of hand. I felt the need to comment on this post by Noah Smith after reading the first paragraph The eternally simme...

Three planets walk into a bar. It's the dive where planets grow to guzzle cubic megameters of beer and complain about the kids these d...

Ed Kilgore wrote (among other things) "accept the validity of other religions", " Erick Erickson’s denials that I’m a Chris...