Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Fifteen years ago, a life-and-death drama was playing out in the Southwestern Pennsylvania coal fields. On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, nine co...

Like so many peopele—a majority of voters, no doubt—I was distressed by Donald Trump’s winning the presidential election. I anticipated that...

I am not in the habit of reacting to every asinine tweet made by our dumb-ass president, but I feel compelled to do so now. As President Tru...

For many years, I have purchased a patriotic T-shirt to wear on the 4th of July. Many stores stock such shirts at very low prices as the 4th...

I recently went to a nearby Pizza Hut/KFC restaurant. (Both chains belong to Yum! Brands, Inc.) I was interested in ordering a meal combo th...

Memorial Day is most certainly an appropriate day of remembrance and gratitude for those who gave their lives for their country. But, it is ...

Some of my most treasured childhood toys were Smith-Miller trucks. These large-scale die-cast trucks were not museum-quality scale models, b...

I was listening to Here and Now  on NPR this afternoon. A reporter was interviewing some Republican woman; I wasn’t paying close attention a...

I was intrigued this afternoon by a discussion on the WNYC program On the Media  involving the words “Jew” and “Jewish.” The point was made...

One of the societal problems ameliorated by the Affordable Care Act was that people were discouraged from changing jobs if they had acquired...

President Trump’s second major initiative, his attempt to replace Obamacare with Trumpcare (a.k.a, the American Health Care Act) has crashed...

University of Chicago Press has announced that a new version of The Chicago Manual of Style , the 17th, will be published in September. (You...

On the whole, mainstream media seem to be doing a good job covering the Trump administration. (Coverage of the presidential campaign is anot...

Once again, National Poetry Month is here. This year’s poster for the celebration is below. (Click on the image for a PDF version.) I am s...

A large section of my Web site is devoted to curve-stitch designs. These designs are created with straight lines that often seem to create ...

Indiana, Pennsylvania, appears to be something of a backwater as far as resistance to the Trump administration is concerned. I have had no o...

I recently wrote a collect “For a Troubled Nation.” It represents an admittedly liberal Episcopalian’s liturgical response to the advent of ...

I was on jury duty yesterday. If you have ever been on jury duty, you know that there is lots of down time while waiting to learn if you wi...

Thanks to our new President, relations between the United States and the United Mexican States (i.e., Mexico) are exceedingly strained. Dona...