Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

NASA has continued to dismiss warnings from engineers concerning possible tile damage that may have occurred on liftoff. Even if fatal damag...

I gave some late Christmas presents this year—packets of small, colored cable ties for use on luggage, in lieu of padlocks. The Transportati...

One of Terry Gross’s guests on Fresh Air today was antiwar demonstration organizer Mara Verheyden-Hilliard. The interview was tedious, with...

As you may have noticed from the home page of Lionel Deimel’s Farrago , I maintain the site with Microsoft’s FrontPage 2000. FrontPage is a...

I stopped at my local Wild Birds Unlimited store a few weeks ago and bought a thistle feeder to go with my wooden “house” feeder. This tube...

I heard an ad promoting sugar the other day, presumably the work of some sugar trade group, possibly The Sugar Association, Inc. (see below)...

This morning, and not for the first time, I heard an NPR reporter say of a negotiation something like “both sides are still far apart.” Such...

We live in a culture suffused with icons we seldom consciously analyze. I realized this the other day when I was expecting a delivery from F...

After thinking about doing so for weeks, I wrote my senators and congressman yesterday about how Congress should deal with the Iraq situatio...

Much to the disgust of the Bush administration, Iraq has just agreed to admit weapons inspectors unconditionally, though there are not-so-su...

We sometimes seem to get hung up on titles that were once appropriate but are no longer. This thought was inspired by the recent World Youth...

I would like to propose a class of puns. I don’t know if this is a recognized class or, if it is, whether it has a name. (Reader comments ar...

You never know what you will be remembered for. Of all the words spoken and written by Richard Nixon, for example, the former President is p...

Much has been said of the plan of The Stanley Works’ plan to reincorporate in Bermuda. The plan reputedly will save the company $20,000,000 ...

A recent NPR underwriting announcement referred to “ADM: Maker of natural vitamin E.” Can ADM make something that is natural? Does not ADM p...

President Bush has finally decided to ask for a Department of Homeland Security. In his speech to Congress back in September, I thought he w...

Are other people tired of hearing administration spokesmen suggesting that anyone who expresses a view different from that of George W. Bush...

My Web hosting service informed me a few weeks ago that Lionel Deimel’s Farrago was to be moved to a different server. I received detailed ...

I recently saw a pharmaceutical industry ad on TV that showed a young woman explaining how she had benefited from new drugs taken for her br...

I was invited to attend a Tenebrae service on Good Friday. This is a service associated with Holy Week, at which candles are used and are, o...