Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

For a long time, my Web site has contained a list of pluperfect digital invariants (PPDIs) in bases 2 through 10. Recently, I have been fin...

Readers may notice a few changes in the sidebar at the right. I removed the list of recent posts because the software that generated the tit...

Absentee ballots have long been available to voters who expect to be out-of-town on election day or for whom, due to disability, find voting...

As the Democratic presidential primaries have progressed, Bernie Sanders has repeatedly complained about superdelegates. These are delegates...

In the long run-up to the 2016 presidential election, I have frequently found myself thinking about how we vote in this country, in genera...

I recently wrote about the lack of transparency regarding the firings at the Episcopal Church Center. (See “ Thoughts about Presiding Bishop...

Ted Cruz and John Kasich have cooked up an interesting scheme to help keep Donald Trump from accumulating the delegates needed to win the Re...

Some time ago, I published here an essay about the motto of the United States, “In God we trust,” and what many have assumed to be the mot...

I don’t often buy sweetened soft drinks. I consume a fair amount of flavored and (more often) unflavored seltzer, however. I occasionally br...

As Episcopalians who follow church news closely are well aware—see ENS story here —Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, shortly after he was offi...

National Poetry Month is here again. This year is the 20th such celebration. Read some poetry today. You can read my own poetry on my Web si...

Yesterday, Donald Trump accomplished what had seemed impossible. He simultaneously pissed off both pro-choice and anti-choice activists. The...

Over the past week, I’ve written limericks about the major presidential candidates—Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sande...

The importance of filling the currently vacant Supreme Court seat with a justice considerably to the left of the idiosyncratic Antonin Scali...

Republican Senators conveniently have found (i.e., invented out of thin air) the principle that a president should not be granted a Suprem...

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Open compounds often become closed compounds over time. For example, “rail road” long ago became “railroad.” More often than not, whether a ...

A few minutes ago, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Antonin S...

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