Author: Tom Faranda
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Lou Holtz give a great, short, funny speech
This looks like a University Commencement speech but it doesn’t say where it is. Here’s what I posted a couple of days ago when it was announced he’d died. “I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
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NY Times continues it’s attack on alcoholic beverages! Yawn…
We all get it – drinking too much is bad, very bad, for you. But just getting tired of the NYT preachyness on this… What Alcohol Does to the Body Dry January has come and gone, but Americans’ relationship with drinking is undergoing a more lasting change. According to one recent poll, just 54 percent…
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Lou Holtz
Gone at 89 years old. Coached Notre Dame to the National Football College Championship in 1988 and by all accounts was an even greater man. UPDATE: from RN – I went to the College he coached before ND – The College of William & Mary. He was asked why he lost a game, and he…
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Friday cocktail – Orange Blossom, version two
We prefer this to version one, from last Friday. And we changed the recipe slightly from the short video. Farandaville recipe – just up the gin a bit from the video. 1 & a 1/2 oz gin 1 oz sweet (red) vermouth 1 oz. orange juice – fresh is best of course Shaken with ice…
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Anniversary of Dred Scott Decision
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the infamous Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court exiled an entire class of people from the protection of the law. And the real predecessor of Roe v. Wade.