The Adventures of Roberta X

      It started last Wednesday.  I was sitting in my car at a stoplight, in one of two left-turn lanes where two major streets intersect, t...

     I needed to bore a 7/8" hole in the top of my nightstand, so I could permanently mount the "microphone boom" that holds ...

      There's a new coronavirus variant -- or at least new to the people who keep track of them.  There have been a whole lot of news an...

     So I went back to the main campus of the Skunk Workings yesterday afternoon and evening, helping to fill in for a vacationing co-worker...

      The nature of my employment is such that we're lucky to get any holiday off.  The day after?  Nope. Oh, there are rare exceptions;...

      I'm thankful the past few years haven't been worse, too.       The food this year--       Modesty forbids waxing too ecstatic...

      Let's all think happy, positive, reality-based thoughts!       For a damn change.

      Tsk, tsk.  So 1938. Or perhaps so "guilty by reason of wearing eyeglasses." Same, same; brute nitwits try to outvote math ...

      But the letters don't have cites, or, in one case, they have half-arsed cites to derivative data.  So they'll get refuted but ...

      Readers and would-be commenters, if you are going to send me a "just asking questions" comment expressing deep and severe do...

     If you were born in the United States after 1955, you grew up in a country where polio was no longer a looming terror, where smallpox w...

      Yesterday, I got a COVID-19 booster.  This morning, I'm pretty achy and drifty.  Added to my sore shoulder, it's no fun at all...