Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

As I wrote on February 8, I found my misplaced passport and immediately realized it had expired. The next day, I had a new passport photo t...

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that an embryo created via in vitro fertilization (IVF) is a person, a child, and its destruction can re...

Today is Mardi Gras. Both Sunday and today (Tuesday, of course), I’ve watched New Orleans Mardi Gras parades on the Web. I have not been in ...

I have recently heard several radio stories relating to rail safety. The stories were mostly occasioned by the anniversary of the Norfolk So...

All kinds of things can go wrong when moving to a new home. Belongings can get lost, broken, or misplaced. You can also move things you wish...

House Republicans have successfully engineered a legislative crisis by refusing to authorize aid for Israel and Ukraine without also includi...

Israel has long given the U.S. government reasons to be unhappy with its actions (in the West Bank, for instance). President Biden is clearl...

A reader complained recently about being unable to leave a comment on this blog because a Google account was necessary to do so. As it happe...

Every day brings a new essay attempting to explain the popularity of Donald Trump. There is no single reason why citizens not only approve o...

I admit that I was dismissive, contemptuous even, of President Trump’s animosity toward immigrants. His opposition to immigration seemed a c...

The Supreme Court has chosen to consider Donald Trump’s appeal from the Colorado decision that his name should not appear on the Republican ...

For whatever reason, I haven’t written much poetry lately. Since I moved to Clifton Springs, however, I have had opportunities to read some ...

Anyone in the habit of recording one’s thoughts risks future embarrassment when those remarks are revisited years later. For a time when I w...

I attended a concert of the Fisk Jubilee Singers at the Smith Opera House in Geneva, New York, last Saturday night. The concert was somethin...

 The last time I experienced a partial eclipse of the sun was August 21, 2017 . Although my track record for seeing astronomical phenomena u...

At the suggestion of my former eye doctor, I have been taking Pharmanex LifePak anti-aging packets, each of which contains four capsules. Th...

My treatment of PPDIs/Armstrong numbers on Lionel Deimel’s Farrago  has been checked and revised. I have added a new theorem and revised a c...

 That Donald Trump may soon find himself in a courtroom at the defendant’s table has led me to think about juries generally and juries that ...

The GOP debate of presidential hopefuls on August 23 was mildly useful, though it illustrated again that the mechanics of these events are a...

This evening, Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton are having a discussion as we await information about the just-issued indictment in Georgia....