The Adventures of Roberta X

     Tamara's line for times like these is "Events leading up to...," that part at the beginning of a history book (or maybe a...

     Apparently, CNN's out of the video pool for now .  They've got access to the White House, but not Air Force One or special even...

     Through misadventure, misjudgement and incompetence, the United States has led the way to a global shortage of diesel fuel.  Prices hav...

     Watching national and world events is like having a front-row seat to someone else's nightmare: not only does it not make sense, ev...

     It's no secret that I don't think much of Mr. Trump, or of how he and his gang of Republicans are running the federal governmen...

      The current collection of ne'er-do-wells, failsons, solipsistic opportunists, toadies, religious extremists and other vile nutjobs...

      Things didn't end well for Cassandra, but they were bad long before they got worse: the thing about prophecies of doom is, even if...

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

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

     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...

     You can't see the dead people from here.  But even ignoring that horrible toll, war is bad for a whole lot of things beyond the obv...

     I really tried to ignore it all day.  But will someone please explain to the bulging brains of the Executive Branch that real life does...

     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 was up late Sunday night for no good reason, and slept in a little Monday -- but I have to admit it, the strangeness and unpleasantne...

     There's a chance that a breakfast plate hit the wall in the White House this morning.  Secretary of State Marco Rubio is making the...

      It's Star Trek day, among other things, the day the first episode of the series aired on NBC, the first step in a long cultural ar...

     Listening to a steady drumbeat of news this morning, the local TV stuff that wakes me up, NBC, NPR, BBC, and it strikes me that "A...

      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...

     The thing is, when top Federal intelligence and defense officials plan international military action: A. Using their personal cellphon...

     Half everybody -- or maybe it's three-quarters by now -- has their own take on the meeting yesterday between Volodymyr Zelenskyy, D...