Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

President Trump wants to hold on to power through unconventional, mid-decade gerrymandering. An alternative strategy (and perhaps an even mo...

My latest poem celebrates my Howard Miller wall clock purchased many years ago. (See photo below.) Howard Miller has produced many beautifu...

Is CBS, in pandering to the tender sensibilities of President Trump to gain administration approval of the merger of its owner Paramount wit...

Last night, at Open Mic Night at Sulfur Books, I read my poem “ Summer Pleasures .” That poem evokes various experiences of my childhood in ...

What if, on December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt had gone before Congress and asked for an increased military budget to build more weapons ...

In June, the Texas legislature passed a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in every public elementary and secondary school cl...

The Supreme Court has become the “No-Surprise Supreme Court.” The justices take cases seemingly adjudicated rationally and definitely in low...

I often read poetry in public, usually my own, but sometimes the poetry of others. In particular, I have been reading poetry at Sulfur Books...

Many of us are concerned about the future of our country and worry that the grand experiment that is the United States of America may be com...

I’ve been looking through the stack of papers on my desk. On a church bulletin insert, I found the beginning of a poem I scribbled down duri...

Widespread faith in democracy is on the decline. The autocrat, after all, can make needed changes quickly and without interference. Unfortun...

After major American upheavals, the country has perceived a need for new laws. New, sometimes transformational, laws were enacted after the ...

I find it distressing that some people who feel that the government is not working for them believe that scrapping our democratic institutio...

I made a list of my favorite movies the other day, and it struck me that it would be interesting to compare my list with movie lists of frie...

What follows below is excerpted from Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography  by Harlow Robinson. It describes the arrest of Lina Prokofiev, who was m...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, Massachusetts colonists fired upon British soldiers at Lexington and Concord. We are now...

Increasingly, I hear advertisements for financial services targeted at “high worth” individuals or families. “High worth” is the latest euph...

Last month, I wrote a brief post about the meaning of “DEI,” and I asked how anyone could be against it. Below, I intend to offer something...

There are lots of good economic arguments for the insanity of Trump’s recent tariff increases. Trump believes that his tariffs will transfer...

Because it’s March 31, I began thinking about changing the month on the calendar hanging on my wall. Last year, I didn’t find a calendar tha...