The Adventures of Roberta X

     Summer in Indiana means rain.  It's normal.  The recent heat wave is unusual, but today we had a lot of rain in the morning (and th...

     I could point out that the intersection between "I unfriended the notorious pedo for being a perv" and "I unfriended the...

     Exporters do not pay tariffs.      Exporting countries do not pay tariffs.      Importers pay tariffs, and pass the added cost along ...

     Once again, I chaired the monthly writer's "critique group," where we analyze one another's work, everything from gra...

     Every day, I look at the news and think, "You can't make this stuff up.  If you put it in a novel, it would be rejected as imp...

     Investing is essentially a more-or-less honest confidence game: you convince investors your enterprise will succeed while not guarantee...

     Listening to a steady drumbeat of news this morning, the local TV stuff that wakes me up, NBC, NPR, BBC, and it strikes me that "A...

     UNESCO is a UN agency that encourages peace through cultural exchange; they also list and track sites of exceptional interest and, ye...

     Commenting, it would be nice if some of you'd look up how paying tariffs actually works, and if you want to ring in Marxists in con...

      - A few comments have come in that are obviously based on having read the headline and lede of my blog post and then changing channels...

     Events of the past week have made it clear: If you're still supporting Republican politicians at this point, you're in favor of...

     My boss recently had occasion to use a packaged microcontroller; I leapfrogged from BASIC Stamps (nice little widgets, as long as what ...