The Adventures of Roberta X

     What, do you suppose, are the chances that a man who still denies he lost an election to the Presidency and incited a (dimwitted) insur...

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

     Ever bend a hard plastic rod?  Many plastics will go quite a ways, and then, all of a sudden--  They break.       Mr. Trump's Repu...

     Events of the past week have made it clear: If you're still supporting Republican politicians at this point, you're in favor of...

     A commenter recently suggested one of the online, black-market (masquerading as gray) digital archives as a source of the out-of-print ...

     It's Veteran's Day -- and I do thank you for your service.  It was Armistice Day to begin with, the end of a war that left a sc...

     In response to my post yesterday, pointing out that everyone involved in the current round campus protests and responses are more-or-le...

     You know what's going on in Israel right now.  You probably know what had been going on in Israel: deeply divisive politics, in whi...

     The news broke yesterday: Former President Donald Trump has been charged over his -- in my opinion, not to mention the grand jury's...

     No, seriously -- what is happening in Russia?  Mr. Putin seems to have gotten himself into a bit of a corner and some of the chaos he...

      I suppose I should be all over Donald Trump's arraignment today.  I'm not going to be hanging on every moment of it.  We don...

      Let's see -- an expansionist autocrat is waging war to "take back" territory to which his country has a far less tenable...

      Jonathan V. Last of The Bulwark , on what he wants from politicians, starting with an example recorded as the U. S. Capitol was under ...

      The Rubicon wasn't much of a river in Roman times and none of the modern candidates -- the river renamed " Rubicon " in ...

      The mysterious crash appears to have been from the living room, where we finally discovered a small box had fallen on a folded camera ...

      Yesterday's post drew comments.  Partisan comments, for all that I stuck to general principles.  I was going to just let them sit ...

     At worst, another loser hoping to get famous.  It's been all over the news -- a young man showed up at a Springfield, Missouri Walm...

     The weather was dreadful today, "killer hot" and no hype about it.  So I stayed in and binge-watched HBO's Chernobyl . ...

     So, the NRA Board elected a new President.  You might expect they would choose a real Boy or Girl Scout type, squeaky clean and inoffen...

     There's supposed to be James Bond theme music and a splashy gun-barrel photomontage when a shaven-headed billionaire with his own...