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Groupies, The Cosby Edition

vassar / July 5, 2021

(I originally posted the original in January, 2016. in part because I go back with Bill Cosby to the early 60s, when he putting out LP’s, which was about the same time I became acquainted with Groupies, when the Beatles…

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American Exceptionalism, Education, Elitism and Class, History, Race and Culture, Religion

To Pause and Reflect, The Fourth of July

vassar / June 30, 2021

As I’ve noted before I was born and raised in a company town. Coal mining. And every July 4th the mines shut down and the town gathered at our school football stadium, where half the field was lined with stands…

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Military and Veterans

Famous Common People I have Known: Gays in the Military, a Wartime Remembrance

vassar / June 26, 2021

  “Policies Concerning Homosexuals” have changed since I was an Army defense lawyer in the closing years of the Vietnam War. “Being boarded out” was a large part of my defense work. I’d be interested to know how attitudes stand up…

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