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Good on Bon Jovi! Here is the short version and a link to a longer – 3 minutes version – is below it.   Here's the long version – Incredible moment Jon Bon Jovi stops woman from potentially jumping off a bridge

I am reading this guy’s original huge bestseller Sapiens. He presents a number of interesting arguments on the development of “Sapiens” (that’s us). I am only a bit more than 10% through the book but so far finding holes in his various arguments.  

Like for most people today is a sorrowful day. Below is a posting I first put up in 2006. Tommy should be 53. The comments on his Legacy Tribute page are 100+ pages.  I knew seven people killed on 9/11. But I only knew one of them real well. I knew Tom Knox (“Tommy”) because…

Came to me via Brigid, via PM off of facebook. I tracked down the origin of the quote using perplexity ai . And it’s below the image. The quote “Modern man is in a terrible predicament. He is helplessly enamored with the beauty of what the old world built, yet despises the beliefs that inspired…

In the NY Times so there shouldn’t be a paywall. Only 3% of Indonesia, which is the 4th most populous country in the world – is Catholic. On an Indonesian island about 500 miles east of Bali, an open-air truck traversed up winding roads one recent Sunday. It was taking dozens of jovial men, some…

This should be big news – similar to Liz Cheney saying she’s voting for Harris – but it will not make the headlines of the NY Times or really any of the major media – except FOX. Hit this link for Dershowitz bio. Attorney Alan Dershowitz says he is leaving the Democratic Party after being…

What a great story this is. She wins the Olympic long jump gold and he wins the Paralympic 400M gold as well as other medals. Woodhall and Davis-Woodhall, who wed in 2022, went viral at the Paris Olympics thanks to their emotional celebration of Davis-Woodhall’s win, her first Olympic medal. The couple, who also competed…

As opposed to the standard and better known light daiquiri. The Farandaville recipe below the short video.   Farandaville two slightly different variations – Myers Jamaican rum – 2oz. Lime juice – 1 oz Demerara syrup – 3/4 oz    Shaken and poured as above; we cut the demerara back to 3/4 oz. from the…

I’m impressed. Fr Anthony Ekanem. Text is from the Holy Name of Mary bulletin Get to Know Fr. Tony Fr. Tony is the fourth of 8 children and the younger of a set of twins born to Columba L. Ekanem, a late Chief Inspection of Education and Brigid C. Ekanem, a schoolteacher. He was born…

Ahhh, yes only one. We did have our very nice trip to Jim Thorpe, PA and Brigid and myslef did some hiking – but no camping. So as we did last summer –  Last Week’s Adirondack Adventure  – we met up with our good buddy Laurie Hurley from Vermont and went to a different campsite,…