The Adventures of Roberta X

     A start-up that calls themselves Our Place has pretty much made my ideal pan.*  It's early days yet; I only got the Always Pan We...

     So I cooked a brisket: T AMARA K EEL PHOTO      Tamara took a photo of last night's dinner -- a chimichurri-marinated b...

     Posted elsewhere, a few days ago:      "The Peelian principles of policing tell us that 'the police are the public and that...

     No matter how carefully I explain it, I still get comments that amount to, "But why can't the police just stamp on anyone who...

     You don't get to pick and choose among the items in the Bill of Rights.  They all apply.      Whenever I write about the First Am...

     It pains me to have to write this.  It's probably going to cost me some readers.      But it's an important principle, one at...

     The past is a large and surprising place: 1920s rocket to Venus .

     Whatever is going on in Portland, Oregon, it's ugly.  Trying to set an occupied building on fire is evil, no matter who the fire-se...

     The National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda has issued a Severe Brainstorm Warning for all of the United States.  At 7:45 a.m.m...

     The interesting thing about street-level politics -- from the most civil of electoral contests to scuffles on the asphalt, from sign-wa...

     I have stopped asking "What's next?"  I don't want to know.       Increasingly, it looks like our species' pres...

     So I didn't post any thing.  I worked outdoors a lot Saturday and it was not a good idea.  I was exhausted and achy all day Sunday ...