You need to pay attention to the lyrics of this song, for words like these have not been directed toward American youth for close to 60 years. The Vietnam War changed the message altogether. I was a senior in…
Author: vassar
Russia-Bad vs Ukraine-Bad, and the “I Can Train Monkeys to Make Underwear” thesis of Post-Modern Business
Part 2 As I related in Part 1, I came to Kentucky by accident in 1969, thinking I was en route to Germany to work for my old boss from Japan, as an Army civilian lawyer. Only Jimmy Carter, who…
Famous Uncommon People I Have Known: Russian Bad vs Ukraine Bad, Things you May Not Know
Part 1., In 1989 I packed my bags and moved to an office in Northern Kentucky just opposite Cincinnati. It was not important to me at the time, but Cincinnati had just established a Sister City relationship with Kharkov,…
Abandoning the Covenant
There’s a film still in theaters I think you should see. It’s called “The Covenant” and is a Guy Ritchie film, starring Jay Gillenhaal and Dar Salem, a small bomb disposal unit, bossed by Sgt Kinley (Gillenhaal) and his interpreter,…
Essential American Dumb-Quackery
Natural law versus natural choices gone wrong Part I: When facts hurt. On August 23, 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin police shot and wounded Jacob Blake while attempting to arrest him. A riot ensued staged by Black Lives Matter. Two days later,…