Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

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 ...

When Donald Trump, as soon as he regained the presidency, attacked DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), I assumed that he deplored the DE...

I was shocked! Shocked! When I received my copy of the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026 issue of The New Yorker  (see illustration). ...