The Adventures of Roberta X

      Hey, remember when "consensus reality" and "objective reality" were pretty nearly congruent and widely shared?  Me...

      Indiana's diminutive Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith is at it again, this time with as fractured a historical analogy as you...

      Indiana's in the middle of a redistricting fight .  The measure passed the House 57-41; not coincidentally, Indiana's Presiden...

     Watching the Sunday morning political shows was an especially pointed example of "One screen, two movies."      Especially w...

     It's painful to watch: some of my friends and former friends, lifelong Republicans, or conservatives, or l/Libertarians, are starti...

     A recipe popped up on my New Page screen that gave me pause.  I don't know; maybe it's delicious.  Maybe it's just calling ...

     Move over, Andrew Jackson!  Scoot down, Woodrow Wilson!  Man, the kind of talk coming out of the White House these days would have gott...

     Yesterday, I had sinuses so messed up that I wasn't navigating well.  After a couple of attempts to get out of the house, I gave up...

     Fox News is in court again -- well, still -- facing off against a voting-machine company .  What, you thought it was over, and that the...

     GDP -- Gross Domestic Product -- is an imperfect measure of how well a country is doing.  You can't look at it and infer, for insta...

     Or at least it's true for me: the older I get, the less I like snow.      We've got a bit of it, and cold temperatures to go wi...

     The Italian pickled vegetable mix is a favorite of mine, but our corner grocer doesn't stock the brand I like best.  They've go...