Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

 The 100th anniversary issue of The New Yorker  is now out. The cover date is “Feb. 17 & 24, 2025.” Excepted for the cover price (15¢ in...

I have been raising oxalis for 50 years. I have often taken photos of complete plants. Such pictures usually look like an explosion of leave...

Increasingly, I am encountering advertisements describing a particular computer program (or, more commonly, a phone program) as a software ....

I signed up for the Clifton Springs Library book club the other day. We meet Thursday to discuss this month’s book, The Booklover’s Library ...

I’ve had a busy morning. I began by writing a brief note to The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, telling her ho...

On a frigid January day in 2025—many thought it would be a cold day in hell when this would happen—Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th ...

I intentionally did not watch the inauguration of Donald Trump this morning, as I knew it would drive me crazy. I did, however, tune in to w...

President Joe Biden delivered a farewell address last night. He spoke of some of his accomplishments as president. More importantly, he warn...

Pete Hegseth appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday as Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. He has proved...

Peter Yarrow, of the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, died on January 7 at the age of 86. The New York Times  covered his life and death h...

On February 6, 2023, I posted a poem fragment on my blog. I had presumably written that fragment even earlier, although I don’t remember ha...

Today, January 6, is The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is probably not what most Americans are thinking of this day. Four years ago,...

The greatest fear of those concerned about the fate of the earth’s climate is that we could reach a tipping point, at which a warming climat...

Democrats will be arguing for a long time about what went wrong in the 2024 presidential election. Harris waged a mostly competent, rather n...

 I heard Speaker of the House Mike Johnson today saying, “We want to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state.” It is worth thinking about w...

I have never been comfortable with the Justice Department’s determination that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted. Although Americans ...

The news that Donald Trump was elected over Kamala Harris on Tuesday last was supremely depressing. I have since been avoiding the news and ...

I am not ready to offer a coherent response to yesterday’s election. I offer only one thought that has bothered me throughout the Harris cam...

In a recent essay on my Web site, I expressed discomfort with early voting because significant events can occur between when a person votes...

Last night, as I often do, I decided to bake some cookies to share at Clifton Springs Library’s Friday coffee hour. Rather than using one of...