The Adventures of Roberta X

     It would have been inconceivable to my parents: a Republican Vice-President, speaking at a conservative group's event and addressin...

      At one time, it was easy to be awash in news: pretty good newspapers, five-minute radio newscasts -- even the screamin' Top 40 sta...

      Let's see -- we approached the weekend with Iran declaring the Strait of Hormuz was closed -- unless you handed them a million dol...

     For years, I carried an iPhone, mostly for work and web-browing, and an Android that was on another carrier that had all my family cont...

     I am not obliged to publish every comment I receive, and I don't.  If you have an argument with something I have linked to, go to t...

      Perhaps the most infuriating thing for me over the last decade is watching my country turn away from expertise and embrace ignorance a...

      When word came yesterday (or was it the day before? Time moves quickly when governments are flirting with genocide) that Vice-Presiden...

     I should have known better, but I skipped posting yesterday: if it was going to be the start of WW III, there was no point, and if it w...

     Rather than belabor the horrors and outrages of the current war, or the "interesting" leadership, I will instead point to the...

     Not just no, but hell no.      A young man knocked on the front door yesterday.      "I'm a student?  At IU?  I'm majori...

      It turns out if you go looking up an SF writer from the golden age (and it's always somebody's golden age in SF), you might ge...

     Indiana's Lieutenant Governor is at it again: Micah Beckwith is making things up, claiming the Founders and Framers who set up a se...