I think it was Konrad Lorenz, the Nobel winning natural scientist, who told of a team of animal behaviorists observing baboons in the South African savannah when a much smaller monkey was spied by a much larger baboon. The vervet turned…
Author: vassar
(Updated) Toward a “Theory of the Man”
For almost everyone who pops up in the news, I have a general theory of that person, beginning with how they got in the news in the first place. If WAPO or New York Times said something approvingly about them,…
Trump Directs his SOTU to the People, not the Political Class
On paper the State of the Union Address has been from the President, the Chief Executive, to the other branches of Government, telling them how the country was faring. The People, the object of the Constitution, (don’t forget) only learned what the…