Business and Economy

Mexico Lindo, A Brief History

vassar - February 23, 2019 3

Three men, standing at the Mexican border, looking south: Man #1: Mexico Lindo. Man #2: I don't see nothin' so 'lindo' about it. Man #3: Just looks like more of Texas to me. Man #1: You have no eyes! (Iconic lines...

Just How Important is Public Education and Private Education?

vassar - April 25, 2021 0

This will probably become an outline of a series since, as I took down some notes about various aspects of both public and private school education I quickly realized one could come at this...

A Memo to President Trump: Beware of the Green Card Bias

vassar - September 20, 2019 0

This is a hard subject to talk about. President Trump and I belong to a generation when the natural law of "becoming American" was still operational, even for Indians who immigrated here in the 1960s....

American Exceptionalism #17: The American How-To Book

vassar - June 7, 2019 0

I'll get to #'s 1 thru 16 later. We've talked about them before. Note the book cover, which I only ran across a week or so ago. It was printed in 1908, in New York,...

First Principles about America; First Questions

vassar - April 21, 2019 2

Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design? I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of that question here as that requires an inquiry into philosophy...

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Sage-isms

Melancholy, a Ten-Minute Indulgence

vassar - December 3, 2022

Just to shut you down for about ten minutes, remind you of your place... ...and our place. Both from Ken Burns films: Lewis and Clark https://youtu.be/llhs1p2xNgo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTONjssOqc Ashokan Farewell, Civil War https://youtu.be/uZmxZThb084 Ashokan Farewell-Sullivan Ballou Letter https://youtu.be/1VK1KcZoDu0

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.