The Adventures of Roberta X

     I haven't posted much this week -- current events leave me struggling to keep up with the craziness of it all, from a Russian-inspi...

     I found Len Deighton's not-quite-Everyman spy Harry Palmer the long way 'round and in reverse, starting with the book series b...

      I read and enjoyed There Is No Antimemetics Division in both text forms, and it turns out there's a short film, as well.      It...

     This morning, a BBC World Service news anchor interviewed Mandy Gunasekara about her thoughts on the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference...

     I think the thing that bugs me most about Daylight Savings Time is that it makes wintertime darkness hit abruptly instead of sneaking u...

     Yes, Mike, you're Speaker of the House.  Bear in mind that it is not the senior legislative body.      Speaker Johnson had opined ...

     "Make it didn't happen" is one of our great human weaknesses.  When things occur that make us unhappy, we want to find so...

     I saw the film "Civil War" last night and...wow. Reviewers got it wrong; they focused on the lack of clarity in who's reb...

     I don't think "talent" is the right word for Mixmastering vast amounts of stolen intellectual property, but didja hear t...

     There are a couple of comments sitting in the "to be screened" stack that I'm probably not going to publish.  Not because...

     Was it only yesterday that a big tranche -- or perhaps a splatter -- of Jeffrey Epstein's emails were made public?  Politicians are...

    A reminder for anyone who needs it: having voted for a politician does not make you complicit in his (or her) crimes and missteps. You...