The Adventures of Roberta X

     I picked the wrong Friday to skip posting.  The stuff I had in mind is largely moot, because as of middle-on-the-night thirty, we are a...

     State of the Union, Checked: CNN did the good kind of fact-check , long on facts, cites and links, short on emotions.  It turns out --...

     I've been reading The Big Con , David W. Maurer's entertaining 1940 study of confidence men and confidence games.  All of the h...

     It was a campaign speech.  I kept dozing off as he droned on and on, from distortion to misstatement to outright lie, with a few stops ...

     This morning is off to an early start, at least for me.  There's a small project underway at work that has been put off and put off...

     The State of the Union speech is coming up, and not only do they cram the Senate into the House chamber (where you know the Senators ch...

      I was busy with the fiction critique group -- those folks are good  writers and getting steadily better -- and the news has done nothi...

     There's a former friend who's annoyed at me.  You see, we didn't vote for the same person for President, and he thinks I st...

     U.S forces, by Presidential directive, are stacking up within striking distance of Iran -- and look, he can do that, shuffle the U. S. ...

     Me, I'd just as soon have my MGB fixed and get to wear a shiny hat.  The truth doesn't change anything.       But the truth ab...

      Okay, I thought the normal beams were dim.  The lead guy at the oil-change place laughed when he checked them.  His trainee looked puz...

     I have been chairing an online writing-critique group for over a year now, and while the microphone in my laptop is more than adequate ...