Robert's Stochastic thoughts

A match made in Oceania. I decided to check which Orwell phrases had the most google hits who remembers "memory hole" ? About 42...

Spoiler Alert I have read the 5 published volumes of "A Song of Ice and Fire" Heptology. In this post, I will not try to avoid sp...

I am not sure that I should be, but I am very excited by recent work on restoring coral reefs. The science is simple, very small fragment...

It is widely agreed that, in addition to the sort of smartness correlated with IQ scores there is such a thing as "social intelligence...

Fournier Transform: This phrase is a technical term which describes the process through which an urgently needed excellent moderate proposa...

David Scholnick wins the internet It seems that Forbes, the AARP and Mike Huckabee object to his research which involved a shrimp runnin...

Near Stupidoclypse Alert Major meme #Fournierderp It looks as if Ron Fournier may sweep the left blogosphere. I read this by Joan M...

Ah I have a very minor disagreement with my fellow Waldman[n]. My usual complaint is that he, KagroX and Michael Waldman are more famous th...

Atrios writes Everything Is Horrible - Let's Stay The Course So weird . David Cameron has issued a stark message that “red warnin...

Jay Ackroyd notes DDay's excellent policy proposals. I comment That is indeed an excellent list . I especially like point 3 (I think ...

I agree a bit less than usual with Kevin Drum who writes on the problem of Democrats and the White Working Class (which is defined as white...

QOTD Do I really have to wade through that Stephanie Schmidt-Grohe and Martin Uribe paper too, and reverse-engineer their result as well? ...

The extraordinarily smart and well informed Richard Mayhew presents amazing data on voter turnout by age in presidential elections and mid ...

He wrote 1984 when he meant 2014 . QOTD "a program called SAFe, Students Against Fear" Orwell himself couldn’t have come up wit...

Lie imitates art (with a twist). Am I the first to note that, as predicted by Jersey Kosinski, C. Gardner is strangely politically successfu...

Today could be the day. I am thinking again of the four horsemen of the stupidoclypse : Charles Krauthammer, Morton Kondrake, Mickey Kaus ...

I think we should all take a deep breath and remind ourselves that Ebola isn't coming to take our children. Oh Nina Pham (first person ...

Read it Quote of the day "we’ve entrusted our national medical system to the managerial competence and goodwill of the Rick Scotts ...

There are some close races for Governor in the USA. They are especially close according the the Huffington Post Pollster aggregation In f...

Amazing but true, Massachusetts allows voting by e-mail. You don't get much more 21st century than that. Well now that I think of it, ...