Friday cocktail – The White Lady

This cocktail is basically a Sidecar but substitutes gin for cognac. So if you like gin… Most recipes suggest an egg white as optional but we don’t do egg white in Farandaville so the video is one of the few without the egg white. And many videos recommend a small bit of simple syrup but … Read more

Drukenmiller takes on Scott Bessent

Stanley Druckenmiller is an investment titan – 30 years with never a down year in the market. The op ed is in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal and he is criticizing a certain action the Treasury is expanding, to try and regulate interest rates. I’ve excerpted some of it. Deuckenmiller’s sensible answers to our problem at … Read more

Dolly Parton

Gone at 80 years old. From the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/arts/music/dolly-parton-dead.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260825&instance_id=180914&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=87616590&segment_id=225389&user_id=1c634a87d1656cc79c8753416632bbac Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur whose rags-to-riches story, outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent placed her in a class by herself, died on Tuesday in Nashville. She was 80. The death was announced in a video posted on social media … Read more

Another major study on walking and health

Video less than 4 minutes long. The channel has 755,000 subscribers. Note that twice the participants are labeled “suboptimal” so clearly the group was not a bunch of fitness freaks. I guess mostly they just walked. No mention of step counts – just a breakdown of how long they walked and their cardiac health.