Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

I have added the sonnet below to my 26 poems of A Trump Alphabet . And there you have the ABCs Of an American political offender, A felon ex...

For a long time, I have been working on a project called “ A Trump Alphabet ,” a collection of 26 poems based on properties of the former pr...

Clifton Springs, New York, has too few restaurants. Before I moved here in 2022, there was a Chinese restaurant on Main Street, a short walk...

For a long time, I was pictured on my blog in a cream-colored hat I liked very much. I discovered that my friends associated that hat with m...

News organizations are careful to avoid suggesting the guilt of persons not convicted in a court of law. Thus, news reports often refer to “...

A far-right Supreme Court today invalidated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives rule against bump stocks. The rule had...

The big news from the Gaza war is that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have freed four hostages presumed to be held by Hamas. That operati...

The photo on the left was taken from my bed yesterday (Wednesday). It shows a refrigerator parked just inside the door of my bedroom. There...

There has long been uncertainty as to how much integrity we should attribute to erstwhile U.N. ambassador and presidential primary candidate...

Things have not gone well in the cooking department this week. Two days ago I was baking banana bread for yesterday’s coffee hour at the Cli...

Louisiana is about to enact a law  mandating that the Ten Commandments—a specified version of them—be posted in every Louisiana school class...

I’ve lived through the Civil Rights movement and the Women’s movement, each of which achieved successes though neither achieved all its goal...

President Biden has challenged Donald Trump to participate in presidential debates this year, and the former president has accepted. Given ...

The news has recently been dominated by reports of demonstrations supportive of Palestinians at U.S. colleges and universities. It is distre...

During my time in junior high school, I remember the complaints of Republicans that the Supreme Court was in the disreputable habit of “legi...

 I was subpoenaed for jury duty today. As I sat during the jury selection process, I was composing an essay in my mind about my experience a...

For the second time in the past few weeks, I received this warning—reproduced here exactly—when trying to make a post on Facebook: Your post...

Some readers may know of my longstanding interest in curve stitching, creating designs using only straight lines. Curve stitching began usin...

In happier times, the two political parties worked together to make life better in America. Compromise was often necessary, but useful legis...

I awoke this morning to the news that the main span of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was struck by a container ship and plunged into ...