Lionel Deimel’s Web Log
Random quick takes by Lionel Deimel
December 28, 2025
An Upsetting Magazine Cover
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I was shocked! Shocked! When I received my copy of the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026 issue of The New Yorker (see illustration). ...
December 9, 2025
Democratic Strategy for the Future
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NPR, which has been interviewing Democrats about the future of their party, featured Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen today on Morning Edi...
December 8, 2025
Three Kitchen Tips
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I do a fair amount of cooking and lots of baking. Naturally, I have built up a repertoire of useful kitchen skills. I do make mistakes, howe...
December 1, 2025
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
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The Trump administration has claimed that its cuts to the federal government are eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. If this is true, where...
November 2, 2025
November 2025 Voting Advice
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Never in modern times has one political party been so philosophically monolithic as is today’s Republican Party. Never in modern times has a...
October 12, 2025
Thoughts on Drug Advertising
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Pharmaceutical commercials on television are required to list possible, often scary (or even deadly), side effects. (Not every conceivable s...
September 29, 2025
Thoughts on Today’s News
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Hamas may indeed be forced to accept the “peace” plan presented by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu today. It is a one-sided plan in Isra...
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