The Adventures of Roberta X

     There will be fuming over the results of today's elections.  There always is.  National elections can be confounding -- the popular...

     Governments have a pretty good history when it comes to screwing up economies.  Fixing them, that's another story.  Herbert Hoover ...

     They pulled me in: I didn't watch the World Series, but by the fourth game, I was keeping track of how it was going.  Some of the g...

     One of the problems with figurative language is that you set out to describe a regime composed of cranks, crooks and grifters, and inst...

     Okay, it's just one set of hoofbeats.  Might be a horse, might be a zebra.  But it doesn't seem like a good sign when a major c...

     It's expensive enough that I can't recommend it unless you really need one -- or have money to spare.  But it's as neat a c...

     I did something today I have done only four times before in 38 years of my job: I put a new transmitter on the air.      In this case,...

     I was up late Sunday night for no good reason, and slept in a little Monday -- but I have to admit it, the strangeness and unpleasantne...

     There are a number of Federal grant programs, some dating back decades, that aim to help survivors of domestic abuse, human trafficking...

     Dinner tonight was a splurge.  Our corner grocery had good -- well, not insurmountable -- prices on ribeye steaks, so I bought a couple...

      Canada ran a TV ad in the US that included excerpts from a Ronald Reagan radio speech about trade barriers, back when he was President...

     It would make me happy to have something witty to say about the demotion of the East Wing of the White House, and the monster of a ball...