Robert's Stochastic thoughts

I comment on this editorial First the comment I posted there. To skip it search for herehere. This editorial contains a false asserti...

This isn't important and I am 100% certain that it isn't original, but I just came up with an explanation of a complete mystery whic...

Cops say Lohan took Christian LaBella’s cellphone so she could delete pictures of her partying — and he got physical with her trying to get ...

Conor Friedersdorf will not vote for Obama because of Obama's violations of the bill of rights even though he thinks Romney is worse. ...

Kevin Drum explains nonstandard monetary policy very well. I make my usual comment. What the Fed does in normal times is target the Fede...

Bill Murray   09.27.12 at 3:27 pm If you could find a number of examples of someone arguing “that it is always or definitionally the right...

Get your free thinking in a dirty glass right here

Wow I really totally lost it this time.   Also, by the way, I coincidentally typed exactly the maximum allowed number of characters. For n...

Not Big Brother, or even Ben Bernanke but Brian Beutler First QOTD " The Fact Checkers™ clutched their pearls and, in the most enabli...

The Bain of the GOP - Mayflower1620-3266908 EtchaMittch  the robot  romnybot  randroid big lord flauntthelaw the Cai...

"if a secret video surfaces depicting Obama promising to impose Sharia law in his second term, Romney will stand a good chance of comin...

Jonathan Chait has a great find "  Obama seems to be getting way more bang for his buck. Republicans are  paying  their staff twice the...

Jonathan Chait wrote ...what is surely true is that individual polls do over-sample Democrats. That’s just how statistical margin of erro...

Conner Friedersdorf writes that he will not vote for Obama, because Obama has ordered indefinite detention without trial and killing witho...

Erick Wemple wrote "the  studies  that have shown that fact-checking operations are tougher on Republican than Democratic politicians...

I think that Porky Populism by Rod Dreher is a must read. I commented. This is a good and important essay.  I have two thoughts Firs...

I admit it, I have a vaguely negative feelings about Republican politicians and cell phones. My hatred of cell phones dates back to the ol...

Austin we have a problem. Austin Frakt very very politely argues that Daniel Kessler's premium support program is optimal policy for ...

The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk. What was the source of European World Dominance ? (I have no contact with Minerva, have only rare...

Ezra Klein defends an increased capital gains tax as necessary for distributionally neutral base broadening rate lowering tax reform.  I su...