Everyone loves Yogi Berra

I've never heard anyone say an unkind word about "the Yogi." Here's a good feature off the Yankee website. Yogi a part of Yankee Stadium lore | yankees.com: News Yogi Berra's delightfully fractured language has grown so much over the years that there seems to be a Yogism for every occasion. One that fits with … Read more

More on the Saddlebrook Church “Values Forum” about McCain and Obama’s answers to a question about Supreme Court justices

I posted about the Forum earlier here Tom Faranda's Folly: Interesting column on this past weekend Saddlebrook Church "Values Forum" with McCain and Obama question… but I didn't watch it myself. The Wall Street Journal had an editorial yesterday, about Obama's dissing and slighting of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. There are seven paragraphs; and it's worth hitting … Read more

Interesting column on this past weekend Saddlebrook Church “Values Forum” with McCain and Obama questioned by Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren

I didn't see this Forum, which was televised Saturday on MSNBC, but I did see some excerpts on the BBC World News. The BBC excerpted McCain and Obama's responses to a question on taxes, and to their views and thoughts on their own Christian faith. Here's a young Catholic priest, Fr. Jonathan Morris, who has an opinion column … Read more

Debate continues on the Shroud of Turin

I have no idea whether the Shroud of Turin shows the real body of Jesus or was somhow manufactured during the Middle ages; there seems to be evidence for and against. If it was manufactured, how did they produce a negative image? Here is an interesting article from the LA times about a physicist who … Read more

Past weekend was big Faranda outdoors weekend

Well actually an extended weekend, counting Friday. Early Friday morning Mom, Dad, and Tim went on a 40 minute bike ride, out onto Croton point and then down along the waterfront to Senasqua Park. Then Friday evening Brigid finally got going with her kayak, which she’d gotten way back in December for her birthday. She … Read more

Darfur Update – the Olympic protest

No doubt, there is going to be controversy over the Chinese human rights record at the Olympics. And the Chinese support the  will not speak out about Sudanese government's genocide in Darfur – China is the Sudan's leading market for oil. I received this email from the Save Daurfur coalition today. tom, I was about … Read more

Further thoughts on Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

I previously posted stuff here Tom Faranda's Folly: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and here Tom Faranda's Folly: More on Solzhenitsyn Go here for additional reflections - Solzhenitsyn and His Critics – The Acton Institute Solzhenitsyn’s critique of modern societies went much deeper than ideology. He drew from a Christian moral tradition, not a political platform. He yearned for a … Read more