The Adventures of Roberta X

     It's Friday, and that's good.      I spent yesterday working with some speech-to-text software that had...problems.  It was s...

     Slate manages to misunderstand both science fiction and how stories work.      It is, I suppose, impressive: swinging wildly, Slate...

     The impeachment trial lumbers onward, and let us thank due process for making dull what could have been far more acrimonious.      Th...

     Apparently -- and who would have guessed?  -- a lie can still make it halfway around the world before the truth has even got its pants...

So I open up the box of my new IKEA silk scarf, and there it all is: -A mulberry sapling -A dozen caterpillars -Two itty-bitty knitting ...

    Late to post.  This morning, I looked around and realized the kitchen was approaching -- if not past -- the Quentin Crisp limit.      No...

     After a week of never getting enough sleep (and other stress -- the new General Manager visited North Campus, which is A: my responsibi...

     And plenty of rain.  We've been fortunate this winter; had it been cold enough for our spells of rain to have been snow instead, it...

     I was cooking breakfast and half listening to the morning news on TV when a story caught my ear: There was a new report out that ranked...

     Monday's Lobby Day at Virginia's state capitol came and went without anything more untoward than one attendee who managed to ge...

     This afternoon, the U. S. Senate will do something they rarely do: put the President on trial.  The process is written in out Constitut...

     Apparently, a pretty thorough debunking of a far-Left historian has recently been published.    Good stuff, hey?  Demolishing invidious...