The Adventures of Roberta X

     There's limited room on the airwaves.  Digital TV made it easier to get more signals into the same channels -- and the FCC promptly...

     I really don't get the two-hour speeches.  Donald Trump is the leading example, but the primary campaign had a lot of it, candidate...

     In the latest round of playground-level political struggle, politicians from one party are calling politicians from another party ...

     Had the writing group thing today, which I am co-ordinating this year.  This is very much not one of my skills, so it's stressful a...

     Growing up, my family took to the board game Trivial Pursuit shortly after it came out, and played it seriously.  Not grimly; we had a ...

     An utterly scurrilous rumor made the rounds on social media recently before being thoroughly and easily debunked.  Rest assured that no...

     Today is the anniversary of the " Kitchen Debate " between Richard M. Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev in 1959.      Say what you...

     Digging into history, I sometimes take odd turns.  Recently, it was "When did we stop calling the President of the United States ...

     Oh, no!  A Presidential candidate from one of the major political parties, who had already won that party's primary, has stepped do...

     For those of you hankering for the lost Roman Empire -- or even the Republic -- it's 2777, ab urbe condita.  Do you know where your...

     I didn't expect it would do much good.  If you're deep into the Trumpian Cinematic Universe, you've left objective reality ...

     I was going to refute in extensive detail a commenter who loftily informed me that "January 6 was not an insurrection" becaus...