The Adventures of Roberta X

     I admit it.  I've been watching the progress of the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" through Congress with bated breath and...

     Between Friday's batch of Supreme Court decisions and the likely passage of the unpopular, so-called "Big Beautiful Bill,...

     It looks like we're in for a bumpy ride.

     The Federal lunacy and cruelty is too much to keep up with, from yanking funding from a program to vaccinate children to intramural fig...

     Call it climate, call it weather: either way, there's broad agreement that this extremely hot weather is unpleasant.  So far, the c...

     In the wake of the U.S. bombing of several nuclear-work sites in Iran, there was supposed to be a cease-fire between Iran and Israel.  ...

     It's Turing's birthday, a day to remember that the brilliant mathematician and computer theorist was an enormous part of the UK...

      The United States of America both is and is not presently at war with Iran.  If you ask the Administration, someone like, oh, Vice-Pre...

     A recent news story neatly encapsulates the present moment : a student at the University of Florida's law school wrote a paper for ...

     A local radio newsperson just told me over the air that the storms that knocked out my electricity the day before yesterday -- and that...

     Today is Juneteenth, the day the last group of enslaved Americans of African descent learned they were slaves no more.      Our countr...

      A string of bad thunderstorms rolled across Indiana late yesterday afternoon, catching me on a break at a bookstore near work.  About ...