The Adventures of Roberta X

If you haven't been following the Toothpick Test for presidential candidates over at Fatale Abstraction, go have a look.      I think i...

They're nowhere near saying they've found the killer (though they've got a "person of interest" in custody) but Chicag...

I am, as you may have noticed, a monster of arrogance and conceit, or so it sometimes feels.  A friend was trying to share a sense of excite...

...If Barack Obama does not win, says washed-up sortafeminist Erica Jong .  (via pdb ).  She's hoping/afraid it will be a "second A...

Caught a Network TV Morning Show piece on the sad machine-gun death of a child in Massechussetts and after some back-and-forth and handwring...

Senator Obama favors the latter.  The Christian Science Monitor gets it right .

     The Dems tell us the "rich" are payin' almost no tax at all with Republicans in charge* and then they tell us John McCain...

...I'm still working on recipients for the Superior Scribbler Award, so I can claim mine.  Even after eliminating all the folks who'...

     Democrat Vice-Presidential Candidate Joe Biden has been working the satellite interview circuit pretty hard, his tie off and his suit j...

Not much time for posting this morning, but as I laid in bed, half-awake and the various lurid missteps of sundry politicians were paraded a...

   Saturday morning, Mr. ------ turned on the radio in his Suburban Assault Vehicle on our way to pin-shooting and with a wicked grin, tuned...

How can you be more one-of-a-kind than one-of-a-kind?    Sorry, Yahoo, you'll be getting a D on this article.