Author: Tom Faranda

This is actually a re-read of Sadhana, subtitled A Way to God, Christian Exercises in Eastern Form. Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit spiritual director and writer, prior to his sudden and untimely death in 1987. (For a touching online biography of de Mello by his brother, go here –  Tony deMello, a biography ).…

I picked up on this through a link on the Althouse weblog. It’s tough. The author is a free lance writer out of Portland, Oregon. Michael J. Totten: “The Head of the Snake” When you enter the museum you will walk through a long and winding hallway. The walls are covered with mirror shards. Each…

Of course you’ve got to be REALLY mad, because this is the big one.  YUP, you can learn to build your own WMD! Here are the details from the Washington Post "How to Build a Nuclear Bomb" Just take the one year course at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Serivce and you’re all set to…

This was forwarded to me by my friend Jeanne Marie Gagnon. I was a big Abbott and Costello fan and this is a take-off on their most famous sketch "Whose on First"? I can almost hear them doing this! COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help …

Actually, Joe got back Friday night. He flew into Westchester County airport from Dulles, in a 25 seat commuter prop plane (United), along with one of his classmates, F.J. Ellis. And he was not impressed with the flight. It was windy, the plane was buffeted all over the sky, and half the people on board…

Here is an amusing article tht AOL news picked up on – AOL Money & Finance: WSJ.com – The Manwagon Or as the article describes it, "This melding of speed and sippy cups…"