Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Apparently, surveys have found that only about 50% of Americans believe that Apple is right in refusing to defeat the encryption on one of i...

Jeffrey Toobin, the legal correspondent for The New Yorker , wrote a “Talk of the Town” piece for the February 29 issue that quickly puts th...

When a prominent person dies, unless that person was generally recognized as a scoundrel, commentary following the death is usually dominate...

I have written the message below to Senator Mitch McConnell. Topic: Judicial Subject: Supreme Court Vacancy I urge you to rec...

Kentucky Senator and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Republicans are arguing that, since President Obama has less than a year lef...

Famous optical illusion: Can you see both the young and the old woman? A small number of words in English can have nearly opposite mean...

In light of the implacable opposition exhibited by Republicans to any nominee to the Supreme Court offered by President Obama, I modestly s...

I saw a phenomenon today that I haven’t seen before. This morning was very cold, and the ground was covered by several inches of powdery sno...

Senator Mitch McConnell issued a statement soon after the announcement of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. The statement, which offered no ...

Most readers will neither understand nor care about this post. If you’re curious, however, you can learn about pluperfect digital invariants...

#change date A popular idea floating around among both Democrats and Republicans is a temporary tax reduction to allow corporations to bri...

Today, the morning after the final Republican debate before the New Hampshire primary, NPR interviewed Carly Fiorina, who had been excluded ...

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In 2012, I was very concerned about the presidential campaign and about issues that seemed important at the time. On the other hand, I rea...

Bishop of Pittsburgh Dorsey McConnell wrote “ A Reflection on the Anglican Primates’ Meeting ” January 16, the day after the Anglican primat...

We used to talk about gays. Then it was gays and lesbians. At some point, we switched to using abbreviations. For a long time, the most comm...

My friend Tobias Haller has written one of the more insightful descriptions of what happened in the Anglican Communion recently. Permit me t...

Regular readers will recall that I complained to the BBC about the use of the term “Anglican Church” where “Anglican Communion” is meant. (S...

Today, my friend and fellow PEP (Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh) member Diane Shepard sent the message below to the PEP e-mail lis...

One day before the official end of the current meeting of the Anglican primates at Canterbury, the result of the primates’ deliberations h...