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
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
I posted about him yesterday.Tom Faranda’s Folly: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum has a wonderful tribute this morning. Excerpt below, but hit the link and read the whole brief essay – it’s only nine paragraphs. Anne Applebaum – Stronger Than the Gulag – washingtonpost.com In the week of his death, though, what stands out … Read more
One of my heroes. He died Sunday at the age of 89. It’s actually pretty amazing he lived as long as he did, since he developed cancer while he was in a Soviet concentration camp and received very poor treatment for it, for several years. I read his first book, One Day in the Life … Read more
Uhhh, well spoken (?) Senator … or perhaps a poor choice of words, Senator? If you have a short memory, or perhaps don’t follow this stuff, you may recall Senator Craig had a little issue of soliciting some action in an airport men’s room awhile back!?
I am a twenty year subscriber to the Jesuit weekly publication America. In early July – while I was away in the UK – America had the following as it’s cover story. You should be able to access the entire article through the link; email me if you can’t open it and I will email you … Read more
I was forwarded this email by my friend John Lally – it’s from the group Human Rights First Next week President Bush will travel to Beijing for the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Click here to ask President Bush to urge President Hu to end Chinese arms sales to Sudan . The government of China claims that it … Read more
I actually wrote about this back in March here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Strength training: Keep it simple – do push-ups! which also referenced this posting Tom Faranda’s Folly: First hike of the season; up Sugarloaf Mountain containing these pictures of two women (find their names by going to the link) doing pushups on top of … Read more
The WSJ in their Weekend Journal edition had a first-page-of-the-section story about a women, Kathy Roche-Wallace doing the ten day Primal Quest 548 mile event. Whew. Here’s a video from the Journal – they only mention the woman and her daughter, but they had two other team-mates including Kathy’s husband (she is 47 years old and … Read more
My rule of thumb used to be “always subtract seven years” – and that hasn’t changed. But I don’t think I can get away with that one anymore. Here I am in Oxford, England three weeks ago. Brigid took the picture as we had lunch. Today I’ll be driving Joe and friends around to get to … Read more