Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

It is often said that Donald Trump seeks to divide Americans rather than unite them. His actions certainly have that effect. Nevertheless, I...

When his mother and my former wife, Betty Deimel, died, my son, Geoffrey August Deimel, wrote a tribute to his mother on Facebook the next ...

Betty Deimel, the former Betty Elaine Lovell, died in a hospital in Canandaigua, New York last Thursday. She apparently died of a bacterial ...

Trump supporters do not think like the rest of us. They share many odd and dysfunctional views. Although they are not uniform in their opini...

Nancy Pelosi On August 4, 2018, I wrote a post titled “ The Wisdom of Dumping Pelosi .” I argued that Nancy Pelosi, who was then minorit...

I just saw a news report of another coronavirus outbreak at a pork-processing plant. It’s time to think more carefully about the significanc...

I recently encountered a Facebook post that collected several English language quirks. One of my favorite items asked whether the “s” or the...

We may not always want to admit it, but our behavior is influenced by what we see in the media. When we see beautiful and seemingly competen...

She is hardly the only person to use the locution, but Rachel Maddow repeatedly refers to a state as “The Great State of [wherever].” (I hav...