Author: Tom Faranda

In the person of Tucker Carlson. Even though I disagree with Kristoff on plenty of stuff I do respect him. He's a rarity among Times columnists in that he's not arrogant, condescending, a liar (Krugman), or glib and flippant. In short, a real thinker. A good six minute back and forth.  

Neat. Brigid after lunch as her three day ACTS Retreat was ending. This is 26 of the 37 women on the Retreat. Soccer player drinking the coke on the left belongs to Feliz, second from left at the back with the big smile, who directed the Retreat. And here’s Brigid, along with our hiking buddy…

Preliminary data from Pew Research – some text and and several easy to read charts. This is all preliminary stuff and more detailed and accurate exit polling data is still a week or two away. How the faithful voted: A preliminary 2016 analysis Over 80% of Evangelical vote went to Trump/Pence. Catholics voted 52-45 for…

Ahhh, gone at 82. Here's a little bit about his writing of Hallelujah, maybe his most famous song – Even before three hundred other performers made Hallelujah famous with their cover versions … Dylan recognized the beauty of its marriage of the sacred and the profane. He asked Cohen how long it took him to write.…

I was watching CNN when he made the remark Tuesday night – born of frustration over his side losing. Jones of course a rabid Democrat who worked in the Obama Administration and now is a commentator on CNN. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt even though he sounds bigoted.   

If you can get a copy, do. I haven't finished working my way through it all, but will.

Off C-Span  

Posting as the NY Times/Nate Silver operation has it essentially wrapped for Trump. He was certainly not my favorite candidate but I've always been a Never Hillary person.

I’ve excerpted the first quote below the link  – the third excerpt (of three) really lays out the Catholic Worker political and economic thoughts – but you’ll need to hit the link to read it, and it’s laid out as bullet points. The author of this posting is a professor and dean in the Villanova…