The Adventures of Roberta X

      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...

      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...