The Adventures of Roberta X

      The seeds of the night sky grew in Tibet.  There the stars were the thickest, the dark blackest, the heavens closest.   People looked ...

      There's been a comment waiting the queue that makes assumptions about my positions or opinions that are so askew that I probably w...

      Republican mega-donor Peter Thiel will be sitting out the 2024 campaign , checkbook firmly shut.  The man who told us in 2009, “I no ...

      No, it's not a metaphor for the Presidential primary.*  It's my Perfect Pot .  Some time back, they had one of their (frequent...

      There was a short window -- mostly post WW II, pre, oh, call it the Newt Gingrich-Bill Clinton sparring, when legislative supermajorit...

      The final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is available on Amazon Prime Video now and if the first two episodes are any indication...

      Last night, I learned that a somewhat foulmouthed comedienne/actress with a whiskey contralto whose work entertains me* has a more tha...

      The long-winded labels on prescription medicines are a kind of miracle of the worst of legal and medical prose.  I'm suggestible e...

      I'm not quite halfway through the film and I never read the book, so I can't tell you if they did justice to the plot.  (Criti...

      Given the way the two medications together shut me down, last night I decided to try just the prescription-strength NSAID at bedtime. ...

      Picked up the super-ibuprofen and muscle relaxer yesterday afternoon.  They all but knock me out shortly after I take them.  Off to be...

      Explain to me how a smalltime TikTok transgender celebrity most people never heard of receiving a few free beers with their picture on...