Tom Faranda's Folly

Interesting that Trump was with his father at a Billy Graham Yankee Stadium rally way back in 1957.  

This is a wonderful column. I've excerpted most of it below the link. He had an ability to reach across denominational lines and ‘speak to the common believing heart.’ You know the miraculous life of Louis Zamperini, whose story was told in Laura Hillenbrand’s epic, lovely book, “Unbroken.” Louis was the delinquent, knockabout son of … Read more

The man's body is still warm but the NYT has to give an opinion on his failings. The author is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkley. No doubt this column has been ready to go for a while. Says more about the NY Times than about Billy Graham. Billy Graham’s Missed Opportunities … Read more

League President Bill Donohue comments – REV. BILLY GRAHAM, R.I.P. Bill Donohue comments on the death of Rev. Billy Graham: Growing up Catholic in New York in the 1950s, the Catholic we most identified with was Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the first televangelist. The Protestant we most clearly revered was Rev. Billy Graham. In both … Read more

The greatest day of her my life. No pictures from that day – we met at a party I was having at my flat in Mandeville, Jamaica. I had seen her a couple of times around town. Here’s Brigid about a year later, and several months before we got married, at a place called “Lover’s … Read more

Full Disclosure: I am a man. Article is by a French woman radio host who conducted the survey.. Leaving aside other issues for the moment, I've always wondered why taking a hormone, that effects (as all hormones really do) your whole body, is considered a good idea. so maybe it's not a good idea? Increasingly … Read more

Here’s a pretty good  great success story. (In 2006 I had a stem cell transplant [giving me back my own harvested stem cells] to rebuild my immune system after the high dose chemotherapy I received for my mantle cell lymphoma. It’s 2018 and I’m still here – so far, so good.But this is a different … Read more

From NY Times health section – I believe it – excerpts below the link but worth reading the whole article. They wound up with 49 high-quality past experiments that had studied a total of 1,863 people, including men and women, young and old, and experienced weight trainers as well as novices. The sources of the … Read more

This was sent to me. I had read before the Super Bowl that he is planning on becoming a Minister when he's finished with football. He recorded it in August, 2017.  

Not a big  deal. Total drop from the high is 8.5%. More a return to normalcy in the capital markets (interest rates going up; borrowing more expensive). "Relative to earnings, the S&P 500 is cheaper than it was a year ago." It happens. The Eagles winning a Super Bowl is no doubt a shocking event. … Read more