The Adventures of Roberta X

     I'm sitting on a comment at present.  I'd kind of like to publish it, except for one little problem: it makes assertions withou...

      I was all set to do a sober think-piece on the dangers of Caesarism and why it's a bad thing, filled with links to current books a...

     A commenter suggested perhaps the lovely wide street that goes from near Fort Harrison State Park to a little northeast of the Indianap...

     I woke up around 2:30 this morning and heard the most remarkable series of sounds, a pattern of seven or eight calls, each with the sam...

     The United States Senate is supposed to be the "senior body," the place where wise legislators serving long terms weigh new l...

     Contemporary politics continues to boggle me.  Oh, the process has never not been tawdry, acrimonious and tarnished all the way to the ...

     Headed from the house to the garage the other day, I glanced over at the garlic chives.  They grow in a raised bed in front of the gara...

      I'm supposed to be worried about Artificial Intelligence destroying us all, but the fact is our Natural Stupidity is more than ade...

     Working on a story of a themed anthology and came up with one I really liked.  But by the time the protagonist had been confronted by t...

     Tamara considers it both a duty and a hobby activity to watch the Sunday morning political pundit and interview shows, so of course she...

     Impeachment is supposed to be difficult.  I have seen a lot of hand-wringing over the results of the impeachment trial of Texas Attorne...

     "Bad money drives out good," and cynical, thuggish and/or pandering elected representatives drive out the ones with a speck o...