Month: October 2018

This really is amazing. The magician is Dan White on with Jimmy Fallon in June, 2017. Been viewed well over 2 million times.  

Today is her feast day. The promoter and updater of an ancient Catholic devotion. A little excerpt below the link. Saint Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart Beginning in 1686, the convent at Paray-le-Monial observed the feast of the Sacred Heart privately, and two years later, a chapel was built at the convent to honor … Read more

From Judy. This is very funny.  

This is interesting. See author of this column – Mark Perry – note at the end. And check India and China on the chart. From the June 2018 BP Statistical Review of Global Energy (67th edition) here are some details on C02 emissions in 2017: 1. Global CO2 emissions from energy in 2017 grew by … Read more

Thanks to Maria for sending me this. We love Samantha, who has done some beautiful stuff for us – CONGRATULATIONS TO CROTON’S OWN… THE DESSERTIST http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2018/10/congratulations-to-crotons-own.html CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DESSERTIST! Food Network is celebrating its 25th Birthday and they are hosting a party during NYCWFF–and The Dessertist–a.k.a. Samantha–has been asked to make and present the … Read more

Of course in Farandaville we love short, fat Italians. And he fits the bill. I think he was the sixth oldest Pope ever elected. Here's a short bio off The Catholic Company Morning Offering. Pope St. John XXIII (1881–1963) was the third of thirteen children born to a poor sharecropping family living in Lombardy, Italy. … Read more

Insightful. And sadly might work… Student Harriet Curry agreed. “Some people are still trying to engage with people on the other side, but we have a saying: ‘If you’re being coherent, you’re losing.’ If we want to win these fights, we need to build up anger inside us and then direct that into screaming and … Read more

I agree, speaking as a registered independent. Of course I get belittled for that as some of my Democrat Party loyalty first friends think I'm a closet Republican. My Party right or wrong, but right or wrong, my Party? Party loyalty – not a good place to store your emotional capital. This article is from … Read more

Certainly rather traditional! As I posted here.   I can’t recall any Pope in my life referring to the devil as often as Pope Francis. In fact, the pope is so convinced that Satan is to blame for the sexual abuse crisis and deep divisions racking the Church that he has asked Catholics around the … Read more

From the Wall Street Journal; I've heard of Romer, but not heard of the other guy. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was shared by Americans William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer, for work on innovation, climate change and the economy that has had huge implications for global policy-making         The pair of economics professors, … Read more