Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Donald Trump is threatening to build a massive triumphal arch in D.C. A rendering of the proposed monument has been released: Of course, eve...

Throughout the twentieth century, steam locomotives were mostly black, with lighter smokeboxes, whose working temperature made the use of or...

Everybody knows the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.             — Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson One may quibble abou...

While performing domestic chores this afternoon, I had been listening to the CD “The Best of Tom Paxton.” In fact, I played the disc more th...

I often post comments to my Facebook account without posting or taking note of them here. I posted an earlier version of the above graphic ...

When Donald Trump, as soon as he regained the presidency, attacked DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), I assumed that he deplored the DE...

I was shocked! Shocked! When I received my copy of the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026 issue of The New Yorker  (see illustration). ...

NPR, which has been interviewing Democrats about the future of their party, featured Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen today on Morning Edi...

I do a fair amount of cooking and lots of baking. Naturally, I have built up a repertoire of useful kitchen skills. I do make mistakes, howe...

The Trump administration has claimed that its cuts to the federal government are eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. If this is true, where...

Never in modern times has one political party been so philosophically monolithic as is today’s Republican Party. Never in modern times has a...

Pharmaceutical commercials on television are required to list possible, often scary (or even deadly), side effects. (Not every conceivable s...

Hamas may indeed be forced to accept the “peace” plan presented by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu today. It is a one-sided plan in Isra...

I don’t use ordinary #2 pencils very often. I probably use them most often for marking walls when hanging pictures. For ordinary writing, I ...

 I do not approve of political assassinations (or any other kind of assassinations, for that matter.) I mourn for Charlie Kirk’s family, but...

Labor Day weekend A time for Trump to rid us Of public unions. I added the above haiku to Lionel Deimel’s Farrago yesterday. You can read a...

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 ...