Tom Faranda's Folly

Author: Tom Faranda

  • Latest Read: “Stand Up and Fight”

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    In keeping with my resolution here My second annual New Year's interview with myself about getting back to reading more books, this is the first of the year. And even though it's a sports book, with the sub-title When Munster best the All Blacks, it's certainly a serious book. While ostensibly about a rugby match, it's…

  • The Wall Calendar for 2009!

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    Yup. Doggone it – you gotta get it. 2009 Sarah Palin Calendar – Get your 2009 Sarah Palin wall calendar today!  

  • Americans: More of us are now obese rather then merely overweight

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    I suppose this is one of the main reasons that despite our greater expenditures for healthcare, we lag some other countries when it comes to various health categories – and life expectancy. Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight | U.S. | Reuters Numbers posted by the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than 34…

  • More on the death of Fr. Neuhaus

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    Yesterday I posted about the death of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus Tom Faranda's Folly: Fr. Richard John Neuhaus . For information on the arrangements, and to read a fine editorial in National Review Online, go here –LifeNet: More on the death of Fr. Neuhaus, and the arrangements

  • A plausible explanation for how Madoff kept his scheme going for so long

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    While it will be a long time before we know for sure how Bernie Madoff kept his operation running, here is a very good crack at explaining it. It's not very long; worth hitting the link and reading the whole thing (If the link doesn't work right away, keep hitting it. It will eventually open.).…

  • Fr. Richard John Neuhaus

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    Fr. Neuhaus died this morning - evidently a return of the cancer he had ten years ago. Only a few days ago he'd briefly posted something on the First Things website saying he was undergoing treatment.  His death is a loss for the rest of us. Brigid and I had met him several times, heard him speak…

  • The most popular posting on my weblog …

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    Is this one. Tom Faranda's Folly: Mediport taken out today It's not even close – I get anywhere from three to twelve hits everyday on it. I presume this is because of it's high ranking on certain google searches. For example if you google "mediport picture", it's the top listing. Google "Lmphoma mediport" it's the 4th listing.…

  • Visitors from England

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    When we were in England last summer, we stayed with Mick Paine, Jan, and their two daughters, Heidi and Zoey. Heidi is the young lady in the very middle of the picture next to Joe. Mick was our good friend when we lived in Jamaica – we both taught at the same school.  And despite his communist, atheist,…

  • A sad story about a good priest

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    From the Washington Post a couple of days ago. Fr. Kelly, taken by a bizarre accident. An interesting man with an interesting background before becoming a priest. Excerpt below, hit the link for the whole feature. Grief for 'the Flying Priest' | LoudounExtra.com | The Washington Post Michael C. Kelly, the pastor at St. Francis…

  • Health update

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    As I posted here My second annual New Year's interview with myself, I got a good report on Wednesday when I saw my lymphoma physician, Andrew Zelenetz, at Sloan. Bloodwork and CAT scan were normal, which I did expect, but was still nice to hear. He also is doing an immunoglobulin study, to see if weakened or…