Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Yet again, Facebook has taken down one of my posts for no rational reason. I saw the following post on my news feed: I was attracted to this...

I listen to NPR a lot. I have come to expect mostly well-spoken English on the network. Two pronunciations have surprised me of late, howeve...

I am not a collector of autographs. The other day, however, I was reminded that I have accumulated a few over the years. I was listening to ...

Donald Trump is threatening to build a massive triumphal arch in D.C. A rendering of the proposed monument has been released: Of course, eve...

Throughout the twentieth century, steam locomotives were mostly black, with lighter smokeboxes, whose working temperature made the use of or...

Everybody knows the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.             — Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson One may quibble abou...

While performing domestic chores this afternoon, I had been listening to the CD “The Best of Tom Paxton.” In fact, I played the disc more th...

I often post comments to my Facebook account without posting or taking note of them here. I posted an earlier version of the above graphic ...