The Adventures of Roberta X

The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

He Said What?

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     It would have been inconceivable to my parents: a Republican Vice-President, speaking at a conservative group's event and addressin...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Deserts Of News

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      At one time, it was easy to be awash in news: pretty good newspapers, five-minute radio newscasts -- even the screamin' Top 40 sta...
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Monday, April 13, 2026

Dire Strait?

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      Let's see -- we approached the weekend with Iran declaring the Strait of Hormuz was closed -- unless you handed them a million dol...
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Sunday, April 12, 2026

New Phone, Who Me?

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     For years, I carried an iPhone, mostly for work and web-browing, and an Android that was on another carrier that had all my family cont...
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

A Reminder

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     I am not obliged to publish every comment I receive, and I don't.  If you have an argument with something I have linked to, go to t...
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Fatal Ignorance

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      Perhaps the most infuriating thing for me over the last decade is watching my country turn away from expertise and embrace ignorance a...
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Thursday, April 09, 2026

I'm Sorry, Who?

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      When word came yesterday (or was it the day before? Time moves quickly when governments are flirting with genocide) that Vice-Presiden...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Missed One

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     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...
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Monday, April 06, 2026

It's Spring

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     Rather than belabor the horrors and outrages of the current war, or the "interesting" leadership, I will instead point to the...
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Sunday, April 05, 2026

No, As In No

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     Not just no, but hell no.      A young man knocked on the front door yesterday.      "I'm a student?  At IU?  I'm majori...
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Saturday, April 04, 2026

Entertainment, We Got

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      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...
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Friday, April 03, 2026

Ahistorical, Antifreedom, Agitprop

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     Indiana's Lieutenant Governor is at it again: Micah Beckwith is making things up, claiming the Founders and Framers who set up a se...
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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
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