Author: Tom Faranda

Uhhh, well spoken (?) Senator … or perhaps a poor choice of words, Senator? If you have a short memory, or perhaps don’t follow this stuff, you may recall Senator Craig had a little issue of soliciting some action in an airport men’s room awhile back!?

I am a twenty year subscriber to the Jesuit weekly publication America. In early July – while I was away in the UK – America had the following as it’s cover story. You should be able to access the entire article through the link; email me if you can’t open it and I will email you…

I was forwarded this email by my friend John Lally – it’s from the group Human Rights First Next week President Bush will travel to Beijing for the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Click here to ask President Bush to urge President Hu to end Chinese arms sales to Sudan . The government of China claims that it…

I actually wrote about this back in March here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Strength training: Keep it simple – do push-ups! which also referenced this posting Tom Faranda’s Folly: First hike of the season; up Sugarloaf Mountain containing these pictures of two women (find their names by going to the link) doing pushups on top of…

The WSJ in their Weekend Journal edition had a first-page-of-the-section story about a women, Kathy Roche-Wallace doing the ten day Primal Quest 548 mile event. Whew. Here’s a video from the Journal – they only mention the woman and her daughter, but they had two other team-mates including Kathy’s husband (she is 47 years old and…

My rule of thumb used to be “always subtract seven years” – and that hasn’t changed. But I don’t think I can get away with that one anymore. Here I am in Oxford, England three weeks ago. Brigid took the picture as we had lunch. Today I’ll be driving Joe and friends around to get to…

Should have scanned in a picture of him as a baby, but these shots of him in England earlier this month will have to do! This duet taken by five year old cousin Lizzie! Here’s Aunt Libby, Uncle Michael and cousins – Outside of Oxford, when we were with Tom and Mabvuto Hardy Riding a motorized scooter,…

Kieran Lalor is the Republican candidate running against former rock star and current Democratic Congressman John Hall (go here for a cute picture of Hall long ago, with his band Orleans John Hall (US politician) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ). I have written about Lalor before; he is a former history teacher, Iraqi marine veteran,…

Haven’t done one of these in awhile. But two things came up yesterday – 1) A major American scientific group admitted there was no consensus in scientific circles on the cause of global warming: DailyTech – Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists,…

 The Dent family has occupied 87 Stockton Lane in York, England for 56 years. Currently only Brigids sister Kate is there, as Brigid’s Mother died four years ago at age 91. I love York and have fond memories of my visits there, going all the way back to the summer of 1978, when I was…