Saturday wordle – another miss!
Double rats. Having failed on Thursday – now two misses in three days.
Tom Faranda
The Preakness – official cocktail!
The 2nd leg of the Triple Crown is this evening at 7PM. There is an official cocktail – called the Black-eyed Susan. Of course there are numerous renditions of the cocktail and three are in the video below. I will put the “official” official Pimlico Cocktail (thank you Gemini AI…) below and it’s the one … Read more
Friday (cocktail?) IPA – Fiddlehead!
A detour from a cocktail (very rare!) This brought on by a trip to Vermont this past week – no cocktails but Fiddlehead IPA (stands for India Pale Ale, originally brewed in Britain and exported to India “with high hop content and alcohol levels acting as preservatives to survive the long hot voyage from Britain”) … Read more
Thursday wordle: Rats! A miss…
Going for my 70th in a row, approaching my all time 77 in a row record. So it’s back to square one. Sour misfortune as I was of to a good start. Correct answer – WAVER
Two miracles attributed to Lebanese Saint Charbel this year.
One in South Bend, Indiana and one in Lebanon. Pope Leo visited his tomb on his visit to Lebanon. Hit the link for the full story. St. Charbel was a 19th century Maronite Catholic monk and priest renowned for his austerity, unceasing prayer, heroic virtue, but particularly numerous miracles attributed to his intercession during his … Read more
Bono (founder of rock band U2) on Jesus
The interviewer can’t believe it… Bono is a nondenominational Christian. Married when he was 22 and has only had one wife!!
AOC gives a lecture (really) on the Founding Fathers & it’s gone international.
And Heather Cox Richardson, a more intellectual loon. See the 2nd short video from Austarlia RE: AOC A good laugh in Australia.
WSJ: “Is Ukraine Turning the Russian Tide?”
I suppose this can tie into this. Putin says Ukraine war coming to an end soon . Vladimir Putin held a subdued Victory Day parade on Saturday in Moscow, with fewer missiles and other weapons that are an annual boast about Russia’s military power. If it’s true that Mr. Putin feared a long-range Ukrainian drone … Read more