The Adventures of Roberta X

     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...

      Why beat a dead horse?  Look, I'm just worried that we've got people headed out for a trip aound the Moon in one of the dumbes...

     I woke a little after midnight with a headache, and never got back all the way asleep, wandering instead through a series of half-lucid...

     I'm reading this morning that another Starlink satellite has fallen apart in orbit, cause unknown.  Just a sudden cloud of debris. ...

     I had put off filling up my car.  I started out the non-war war with a full tank and who knew, maybe it would all be over before I ran ...

      Or maybe I should title this "Dancing With Termites, Mold and Rot."  I have now spent part of the last two weekends working ...

     It's Rich Person's Hoppin' John, with a lot of meat and a whole array of vegetables, and it's what I had for supper Sat...

      Oh, frustrating March!  Warm days, some even sunny, and then today was blustery and chilling.  In the afternoon, it was partly sunny a...

     I admit it: I'm watching history reel past, shocked.  I had thought the rule of law and the strength of tradition were stronger in ...

     In the novels and TV series The Expanse , spacecraft mechanic Amos Burton makes many references to "the churn," a period of t...