Author: Tom Faranda
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Good interview – the healthcare mess & a partial answer.
This is an extensive (9 minute) excerpt from a longer (16 minute) interview. The recommendations at the end of the section would be a big improvement but nothing is perfect.
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Friday cocktail – the Champs Elysees
A classy cocktail. And a short video. We mostly use the recipe above – most recipes just use simple syrup but you CANNOT beat Demerara if you can find it. (Tip – you can get it on Amazon). This cocktail is close to a sidecar. It pays to try different variations – yellow chartreuse instead…
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Smithsonian Magazine: 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
And who doesn’t know the mournful song by Gordon Lightfoot? This is quite a fascinating article. Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ballad it inspired—still haunt the popular imagination. By the day he died, Ernest McSorley had built a reputation as the…