Sad news: Justin Thyme has closed

Ugh. One of the Faranda go-to places (the other being Memphis Maes). God bless and best wishes to Scott and his family and the other folks at JT. Here’s their posting on the Croton Community facebook page. After 15 years and 8 months of opening what we call our home to all of our customers … Read more

Pope Francis crushes it on euthanasia

As NY State and New Jersey have legislative battles over legalizing suicide. "Pope Francis: Behind euthanasia lies mentality that values people based on efficiency" Francis said the process of secularization, “by rendering absolute the concepts of self-determination and autonomy,” has caused a growing demand for euthanasia in many countries “as an ideological affirmation of man’s … Read more

4 quick pix from the March for Life

UPDATE: Here’s some press overage (90 second video) from British media – The Telegraph. https://youtu.be/32vN9TWocJg Awesome young crowd. More to follow but here are four pictures.   Brigid took lots of pictures and video We made sure we were at the top of Constitution Ave. to get good pictures. Two hours after the head of … Read more

Here’s the cognitive test the President took

The test was chosen by the physician and is considered a good determinant for any mental decline. All the questions are on one page. http://dementia.ie/images/uploads/site-images/MoCA-Test-English_7_1.pdf                         It is also been sensitively designed so that it does “not falsely label someone who is normal as being impaired”. The MoCA has been found to be useful to detect … Read more

San Francisco: Map to avoid outdoor areas of human defecation – that’s how bad things are there

This is really over the top. The link is here – (Human) Wasteland  – and there's a drop down box "about"  with some articles and resource information on helping the homeless in San Francisco. There is a brief article here – For those who have maintained that San Francisco is full of . . . … Read more