Tom Faranda's Folly

Thanks to Maria for sending me this. So go here for the links. FRANZOSO CONTRACTING & BAKED BY SUSAN, BEST OF WESTCHESTER 2018 Or here – Best of Westchester List—2018

If you’re of a certain age – my age – you remember Dan Ingram. He’s died at age of 83. “Bye now Kemosabe!” “77 WABC Remembers the Great Dan Ingram”

This is really stunning. Takes a few minutes to read, with lots of links which I didn't go to. With at least two financial settlements on his record for sexual misconduct, how in the world could he have been named a Bishop and then a Cardinal? The scandal of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and why no … Read more

Who died yesterday; he'd let people know a couple weeks ago that the end was approaching for him. Charles Krauthammer reveals he is terminally ill with cancer I liked Krauthammer although I disagreed with much of his thinking. He seems to have never complained about his paralysis from his terrible accident while at Harvard Medical … Read more

Wow. This is sad. Hit the link for full story A former fire department chief and police officer is facing up to 25 years behind bars after allegedly stealing more than $300,000 from the department in Northern Westchester. Gerald Munson, who most recently served as the Croton-on-Hudson Fire Department Treasurer, has been arraigned on several … Read more

UPDATE: Here's Strzok's bio – another fine Georgetown grad. From the Daily Mail (UK). Incredible this wasn't handled months and months ago. He was demoted to Human Resources (where he has access to everyone's file!). FBI lover Peter Strzok is escorted OUT of the agency but still in a job after his 'Stop Trump' message … Read more

That's right – and they still exist, over in West Nyack  Croton Watch Co. Inc. Nice website! Go here for an index of croton blogspot posts about the company  -https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2016/02/an-index-to-croton-watch-company-series.html And here is (I believe) a picture of one of their vintage watches.

The famed physicist who was confined to a wheelchair. I read his book A Brief History of Time many years ago, and while he said he was an atheist, he wasn't an obnoxious, militant guy. In fact by all account he was a wonderful fellow who bore his terrible disability with grace and dignity. He … Read more

This is unlikely to be highlighted on CNN. At the end, he doesn't mince any words about aborting disabled children.

Died at the age of 90. She was in the first two Bond movies, Dr. No and From Russia with Love. Here's the opening to Dr. No. "Trench, Sylvia Trench."