Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

I have been eagerly awaiting news reports about the motives of the man who attacked a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs Friday...

The daily fantasy sports sites FanDuel and DraftKings (and similar, less advertised sites) have quickly become big business. It is a busines...

Builder’s photo of W&LE 6401 (Click on photo for a larger image) Above my desk is a framed builder’s photo of a Wheeling & Lake...

Fever-Tree ginger beer and Bombay Sapphire gin I recently discovered that a local supermarket has several brands of very good ginger bee...

Tonight, with less fanfare than we have seen for previous presidential debates, MSNBC hosted a “Democratic Candidates Format.” The candidate...

I did not watch the installation of Michael Curry as Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church; I was in church at the time. (The timing of t...

I’ve been watching the latest Republican presidential debates. I didn’t watch the debates live because I wanted to see the PBS  Nature  prog...

A three-week synod has convened in the Vatican to reconsider how the Roman Catholic Church deals with family issues. The official theme of t...

I was taken aback Friday when I received the weekly newsletter from the American Anglican Council. (For those unfamiliar with the AAC , I sh...

Congressman John Boehner This past week was notable for its profusion of big news stories. (I’ve already written about one of these, the...

I got into an exchange on Facebook the other day based on a tweet that someone had copied to Facebook. The tweet began with Learn geograph...

I should begin this essay with a disclaimer. I am not a baseball player or baseball expert. I love the game, but I have never played organ...

By now, nearly everyone has heard of the scandal involving millions of automobiles built by Volkswagen. Many of the company’s popular diesel...

After I wrote my essay on Archbishop Justin Welby’s proposed meeting of primates, I learned that GAFCON had given the archbishop the finger...

The big news yesterday in Anglican circles was that Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has scheduled a meeting of Anglican primates to di...

Resolved , That the 78th General Convention authorize for trial use in accordance with Article X of the Constitution and Canon II.3.6 “The ...

Dr. Ben Carson Dr. Ben Carson has lately been rising in the polls judging the popularity of Republican presidential candidates. This is ...

I am fond of seltzer, plain carbonated water, rather than the flavored variety. I am been perplexed, however, by the term “original,” which ...

Last month, my computer developed a serious hard drive problem. I was planning on buying a new computer anyway, so I did that and have been...

Readers who are not too terribly young are likely to remember the mine accident that occurred at the Quecreek Mine in the summer of 2002. Ni...