Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

 I watched the interview of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on CNN last night at 9 pm. The experience was unsatisfying. I mistakenly assumed that...

Every now and then, the pronunciation of a word drives me crazy. This post describes some of my current peeves. Let me begin with a very sim...

The Democratic convention begins today. Now is a good time to suggest the policies I would like to see announced this week. Since I’m not an...

The U.S. Constitution is a remarkable document and one that is often praised. It is far from perfect, however, and its imperfections have be...

I have added a new page of designs to the section of my Web site on curve-stitch designs. These new designs are based on drawing parabolas ...

Although it seems as though the 2024 presidential election has been going on for a long time, we don’t even know the names of all the major ...

This paragraph led off a story from The Times of Israel  a few days ago: Responding to the ICJ [International Court of Justice] ruling that...

I was driving from Clifton Springs to Geneva yesterday when I heard on the radio that President Biden had decided to end his re-election bid...

President Biden held a news conference tonight at the conclusion of the NATO meeting in Washington, D.C. He faced reporters for about an hou...

The picture above was taken at sunset from the solarium of the Spa Apartments. I have taken to going upstairs as the sun sets to enjoy the e...

 President Biden was interviewed earlier today by George Stephanopoulos, and the 22-minute unedited interchange was broadcast on ABC Televis...

In light of Joe Biden’s appalling performance in the June 27 debate, Democrats are struggling with whether Biden should remain the party’s s...

Given the Supreme Court’s immunity decision today, it looks as though Biden can have a Seal Team assassinate Donald Trump. As long as the pl...

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...