Author: Tom Faranda

Proves nothing, one way or the other but worth a read if you are interested in the topic. The author is a science writer living in Brooklyn. Prior belief in god or an afterlife does not, perhaps surprisingly, seem to influence one’s propensity to have an NDE, according to the research, but there is a…

HA! my friend Nancy sent me the picture below re: Awesome Tim foursome wins the Knights of Columbus annual charity golf tournament!   Rather than buy four t shirts I’ll save my money and just post these pictures.

Ha! It took them realizing they could score political points against Herschel Walker! Could get that NY Times writer fired (hit the "conceived the child" link below) … The point is made in NRO, article here – What to Make of the Herschel Walker Abortion Allegation? In case you missed it, on Monday night the…

Here it is – I think the writer sugar-coated it… Pasted in as it was sent to me. I complimented the writer on having "supreme self-assurance".   "I know how to read…" (Faranda)   Indeed you do, my dearest Faranda, indeed you do. You do know how to read black and white words off a…

This is a pretty good article from the Guardian (UK) written by a Harvard evolutionary biology professor. I'm excerpting two "myths" I think we can do better by looking beyond the weird world in which we live to consider how our ancestors as well as people in other cultures manage to be physically active. This…

Some thoughts from the BB. As you no doubt know, the Vineyard people already have handled the problem with the second “way”. Got the National Guard in and packed ’em off to Cape Cod military base. The people of Martha’s Vineyard are facing a border crisis, with immigrants being shipped in from Florida by the…

So having bloviated about our travel day France – Wednesday the 24th to Monday the 29th.  which started Wednesday the 24th and ended Thursday the 25th in Piriac sur Mer , we had all day Friday until the pre-wedding dinner Friday evening. So in the morning we walked through Piriac and down to the harbor.…

Hmm. And note who published the study. In the largest study to date on myocarditis deaths related to COVID-19 vaccination, researchers found that 100 people in England died of myocarditis soon after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. The study, published Aug. 22 in the American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation, found more than half (51) of the…

 A Brigid poster production. The Blaze opens to the public later this week and my posting this was embargoed (by Brigid…) until it was put up in a couple of places in Croton. And it’s a submission to her photographer’s group.

Theresa May – former Prime Minister of the UK – on a picnic with the Queen…