The Adventures of Roberta X

     I stopped at the store on my way home last night, to pick up a little supper and this and that.  It was around seven p.m., dark and nea...

     It's Depression cooking.  Experts say it's not good for you.  It's unreasonably tasty, far more than the components suggest...

     It's too crazy.  "I want Greenland because I didn't get a Nobel Prize," is the upshot of the letter Present Trump se...

     Y'know, I used to play along -- "Good fences make good neighbors" and all that.  But the more I think about it, the more ...

     After more than a week of distractions, I played catch-up after work today today with my hobby writing -- or, as it happens, with other...

     It is difficult to keep up with the various actions of the Executive Branch's collection of malevolent, semi-competent goons, thugs...

     People are sharing shocking videos on social media -- protesters yelling at DHS enforcers, getting pepper balls or spray at close range...

     So....name a capital city in which government forces are killing citizens, arresting on suspicion, beating up suspects and protestors, ...

     The problem with nutty times is that nutjobs flourish -- every flavor of 'em.  Most people just want to get to work, to the grocery...

     It has become a feature -- well, a bug -- of American politics: the party in power convinces themselves they are the eternal darlings o...

     Recent ICE shootings (or is it CBP?  There are a lot of armed TLAs under DHS and they're not making it easy to keep track) are all ...

     Colds don't get easier as you get older.  This one keeps sneaking up on me.  Yesterday, I felt a lot better in the morning, got som...