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...

     Who's most likely to commit politically-motivated violence, the Left or the Right?      It is unlikely to surprise you that the an...

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

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

     A failed coup, followed by a return to power a few years later?  Check.      Make-believe economics?  Check.      A number of scapego...

     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...

     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...

      As nearly as I can figure, the President of the United States is waging low-grade war on some parts of the United States.      I'...

     In a piece of propaganda better suited to Joe McCarthy's Red Scare or worse, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is vowing to go afte...

      At a recent press conference in Texas in the aftermath of the shooting of ICE detainees by a criminal (who appears to be a nihilist wi...

     The problem with two-value logic is that it doesn't scale directly.  It's a handy way to build small widgets; relay logic, TTL ...

     I continue to condemn violence against people -- even ones who ideas I despise -- who are running their mouth and otherwise engaging in...

      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...

     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.  ...

     Is it "monkeywrenching" if it has nothing to do with environmental activism, and isn't strictly illegal but just a little...

     Channel-surfing this morning, on three separate occasions I happened on an NBC reporter, live from the latest big wildfire in southern ...

     Indeed, Ms. Atwood says The Handmaid's Tale drew on historical and (then) contemporary events -- which is one of the reasons she, ...

     Elon Musk and others on the Right have decided to blame "DEI" for the California wildfires getting so out of control, or poss...

     Like you, I'm monitoring the reports from the truck-ramming attack in New Orleans that has killed at least ten people and injured o...

      It's " Move fast and break things ," not "Move fast and break people ."