The Adventures of Roberta X

      Mostly the current top-of-newscast stock-market flap:       Any time you have a system with rules, people will game the rules.  And t...

      When I write on factual subjects, or even express opinions based on facts or someone else's notions, I try to include citations an...

      A lot of the electorate - and no few of the elected -- appear to have decided that politics, especially at the Federal level, is some ...

 1914 - 1918, World War One  2001 - tfn, Global War On Terror  1917 - 1920, Influenza Pandemic  2019 -2021(?), Coronavirus Pandemic  192...

      A familiar tune, in something more like the original form .  Words to live by?

      As the front came through, I got a hellacious headache.  For weather, we got a nice coating of ice followed by rising temperatures, so...

      I'd like to write about politics.  It's still all too crazy to write much about.  A good many of the Republican-leaning blogge...

      Tired of crazy, tired of stupid, tired of the pandemic, tired of pseudoscience.  People didn't used to be this badly askew.

      And they don't want you to find out.  Learn the secret hidden truth !

      Better yet, the pulmonologist says I'm not developing COPD.  She doesn't see any big masses in my lungs or airways, either.  ...

      ...But I find I have no idea what to write about.       Fight quietly amongst yourselves.

      It is my greatest hope that today is as routine and even dull as all of the Inauguration Days that have preceded it, or at least as mu...