I’m not a student of school shootings, except to take note of the shooters, many of whom, from Virginia Tech to Sandy Hook in Connecticut to even Dylan Roof in South Carolina, were mentally ill but able to get a…
Author: vassar
An Ash Wednesday Tale, Benny and his Jeepney
Another Famous Common Person I Have Known, Benny In Spring, 1974 I spent a few days at Clark AFB in the Philippines. Part of the rate for my hotel room in Angeles City included a Jeepney and a driver. His…
Common Cause
Q: Has America had any enemy or antagonist since W0rld War II which the Democratic Party has NOT made common cause with? To make “Common cause” generally means “to unite one’s interest with another’s” and since the 1970s the term…