Bureaucrcy

The Time to Fix This in Now

vassar - April 14, 2020 0

The medical phase of this Wuhan Flu crisis ended a few days ago. By comparative criteria with other diseases that flashed through our country, it was never a pandemic. "From where the sun now stands"...

Aiming Towards An America We Can Still Identify by Sight

vassar - November 14, 2022 0

There are questions of Natural Law and National Identity involved in this question. From William Paley's "Statement of the Argument" from his Natural Theology (1809)(abridged version) In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...

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Sage-isms

“Heaven for Climate, Hell for Society”, Hal Holbrook

vassar - January 28, 2023

You'd have to watch a lot of Hal Holbrook's presentations to find the one quoted in the title. But I heard off an old LP from 40 years ago, and he was comparing the differences between the North and the South at the time...

In The Can

A Harlan County, KY native, Vassar served as an Army criminal trial lawyer in Vietnam-era Asia. After his military career, he spent a number of years in corporate manufacturing management, in the textiles industry, where he crossed paths with a few too many new-generation Gordon Gekkkos and chose to move on to consulting work on behalf of "Con los pobres de la tierra quiero yo mi suerte echar", first in SE Asia, and then in the Soviet Bloc. Vassar dedicates the remainder of his life to committing his thoughts and observations to pen and paper.