Tom Faranda's Folly

Gone to kangaroo better place.

Yay Tim! 22. And a senior at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Here he is yesterday at the first indoor track meet of the season, held at Southern Connecticut State University. A sequence from the first round, throwing the (16lb) shot put. You got to line it up … And then BANG! The explosion and off it … Read more

I saw a piece of the Bush funeral but didn’t see this. All four of the eulogies for him were powerful. Meacham here relates the story of Bush being shot down and how it affected him. It’s 12 minutes long.  

This is a short video – five minutes and it's only the first half that addresses and answers the above. Ben Shapiro interviewing an Evangelical Pastor who I'd not heard of before.   

This is from a few months ago on his twitter account. Glad I came across it.  Fr. Martin is an American Jesuit priest, a writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. James Martin, SJ‏Verified account @JamesMartinSJ   What does it mean to be pro-social justice if you defend the life of a child on the … Read more

  Wow! At a really nice event at Fairfield on Saturday, the 17th, with a big turnout of Fairfield rugby people. Well-deserved and I love it. Besides playing at Fairfield (Colin two years ahead of me) we played a lot of successful rugby together for Essex in the 70’s. In fact Colin played for the … Read more

A blowout; Stepinac was ahead 21-0 at the end of the first quarter. Video below, and hit the link for the Journal News coverage. It means Stepinac is still the king of Catholic high school football in New York, with three state championships in the last four years.  

I find his involvement quite objectionable. Here's what he said at the end of August when certain accusations were made regarding what the Pope knew or didn't know about Cardinal McCarrick. "The Pope has a bigger agenda," Cardinal Cupich said. "He's got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting … Read more

“Apparently, Uncle Charles was asked to eat at the kids’ table after a tirade about how real patriots need to support King James I, and several Wampanoag Indians and younger Puritans alike wouldn’t stop talking about their participation in a string of violent protests throughout the colonies,” Dr. Gary Etherton, a Smithsonian researcher said Tuesday. … Read more

Nice two minutes off PBS –