The Adventures of Roberta X

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion after listening to all the balderdash out of Washington DC and elsewhere that I'm neither a libe...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is preparing to have her swans counted. Please oh please, let this be one of those charmingly British turns ...

Your WTF? moment of the day: In a meeting with journalists last week, [Chief of Staff Rahm] Emanuel proposed that health-care legislation c...

Update : Check out the comments! Reader James E. Griffin -- clearly a lost son of Wile E. Coyote -- offers up a detailed plan to keep the g...

Because some folks -- and they clearly don't know who they are -- stuck Federal flags on their cars after 11 September 2001 and drove ar...

Remember When Mutated Frogs Were Harbingers Of Environmental DOOOOOM? Now, maybe not so much . Seems dragonfly nymphs may have a taste f...

Today should have been a day off. I still haven't got out my nightgown, let alone my quarters, yet I've been working most of the la...

I have owned and used a lot of typewriters. You'd expect that from a retrotechnologist, especially one who spent her early adulthood sh...

That's what Ruth Holladay, late of the Indianapolis Star, is asking . 'Cos one of the paper's offshoot magazineothingies ran a ...

ACE Cycle-Car . Oooooo. Their webpage . I swoon. ( Three wheels and noise for this one!) ...Almost as good: '52 MG TC on *Bay. __...

Here's a search you don't often get to be the top result for, not even for a little while (clickee begets embiggening): Top!! Result...

Update : The overly-clever point here -- which Tam and Crucis saw -- is that while the Corona Comet looks rilly rilly good, it's got so...