Robert's Stochastic thoughts

Faced with an ethical dilemma I say do whatever it takes to get the Fafbloggers blogging. Obviously glofish were not exiting enough anymore,...

Straw Man Straw Man Twice Helene Cooper Falsely Accuses Barack Obama of Debating Straw Men Read all about it at this blog April 7 2009 or al...

Blogosphere like up totally stomps MSM or Tradmed or whatever I read the following sentence in the New York Times, the Grey Lady herself ...

Can I Top This ? "As a friend succinctly puts it, “When that big asteroid finally heads toward Earth, who’s the person you’d most want ...

Kleiman's willingness to prominently post the languange policing of Kleiman is a testament to his true ecumenicalism. That is a testimo...

Preventive Detention Many people on the web point to the key and very alarming passage in Obama's speach on what to do with prisoners no...

What are Newspapers For ? Looks like they are in trouble. I'm worried, but I'm more worried about how relatively unworried I am. ...

"1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds " Is was the headline to an article on recidivism by prisoners released from ...

Beyond Ballance I read on www.washingtonpost.com "House speaker's accusation is either a calculated move or a reckless act. Or both...

You should Read Ali Soufan's Testomony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in Full It did not get the attention it should have received be...

Now I'm going to criticize Glenn Greenwald Arguing against Obama's decision to refuse to release photographs of torture Greenwald ma...

Hoekstra on his own Petard Peter Hoekstra (R-idiocy) demolishes the one semi convincing argument against a torture investigation. The argum...

Mark Kleiman has a very good post on empathy and judges. Just read it .

Extraordinarily (for the first time ever ?) I am very displeased with Kevin Drum Kevin "always click the link" Drum wrote update:...

John Cole has a problem with Benadryl. I have a problem with reality. Does benadryl have a known side effect of giving people bizarre dream...

Duncan Black Gets His Unders in a Bunch Monthly Bet Monthly jobs report comes out tomorrow. Consensus forecast is -600K. As usual I'll g...

What is Mathematics ? Update: Welcome Econmistsviewers ? I am amazed you are here. This is, I think, a once in a lifetime opportunity to t...

My Father in the Washington Post http://tinyurl.com/c6pmlp Thomas Waldmann planned to work for the government for a couple of years after gr...

Will Hiatt Sea Ice part MMMCMDCCCLXXXIV update: While my post debates a month old column, it turns out that Will has made an absolutely fal...

Matthew Yglesias vs Richard Posner “At no stage need irrationality be posited to explain what happened,” -- Posner Yglesias comments I’ll j...