Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Gore Vidal was the last author to set me off by the niggardly use of commas (see “ Commas ”). The latest author to do so is J. K. Rowling, w...

Many Democrats seem—and “seem” may be exactly the right word here—upset over President Bush’s recess appointment of John Bolton as U.N. amba...

(CNN) -- NASA engineers have determined that Discovery can safely return to Earth and that the space shuttle's thermal tiles don't p...

The relief resulting from the successful launch of Space Shuttle Discovery after a 2-1/2 year re-engineering effort following the Columbia d...

With a recent download, I received an invitation to try the music download service eMusic . The incentive to do so was “50 free downloads,” ...

In response to the bombings in the city of London, today, Homeland Security informed the world on its Web site as follows: “The United Stat...

The Senate tonight is moving closer to invoking the “nuclear option” to circumvent the filibuster rule for judicial nominations. I sent the ...

Yesterday, President Bush announced that predecessors Clinton and Bush would head an effort to raise private funds for tsunami relief in sou...

November 2, 2004, was a sad day for me. When it became obvious the next day that President George W. Bush had been elected, I wrote the foll...

Recently, I saw a news segment on television about a Dick Cheney campaign event at the Statue of Liberty. The correspondent said something a...

In a news story on NPR this morning, a reporter read the following sentence (or something close to it): “Both of the planes disappeared with...

Driving home from an Independence Day party and a subsequent outing to view the fireworks sponsored by Mt. Lebanon Township, I reflected on ...

Permit me to point out an irony that has been noticed by others, but which is simply too good not to mention. Last week, Vice President Dick...

I have been reading Richard H. Schmidt’s wonderful book Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality . Schmidt describes the...

In a recent essay, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd attacked the eight finalist designs for a Ground Zero memorial. The pretty designs...

I knew that I hadn’t written anything here in a long time, but I hadn’t realized that it had been four months! Actually, I had begun writin...

In a rare news conference yesterday, President Bush declared his opposition to the notion of gay marriage. He explained that his administrat...

It becomes increasingly clear that the Republican Party has a philosophy that is accepted by its acolytes, unencumbered, as Tom and Ray Magl...

I recently wrote an essay on ambiguity introduced into sentences because of the absence of commas (see “ Commas ”). I think this has made me...

I often see people write “can not” where they actually mean “cannot.” I have tended to dismiss this as a spelling error, but a sentence I en...