Business and Economy

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,...

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...

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...

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....

Teaching History to C-Students, not just A-Students; a Note to Conservatives

vassar - October 19, 2019 1

Yesterday I saw a tweet by Mark Levin, plugging an August 19, 2019 article at The Federalist by Josh Lawson, "8 Back-to-School Books to Protect Students from Leftist Brainwashing". Other than throwing in an updated version of...

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Sage-isms

Judging Beauty, Goodness and Virtue

vassar - May 17, 2022

"If you judge Beauty or Goodness or Virtue solely based on what you see in the mirror you will likely die a painful death...whether old or young. Just ask Kurt Cobain" from St George Frederick, an old friend returned.

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.