Film

Word-Pictures of What Nazis Pretending to be Civilized Look and Sound Like

vassar - August 1, 2022 0

"The Stranger" was a 1946 post-war film noir vehicle about a Nazi SS mass murderer who had escaped to America, and of course, the War Crimes Commission was looking for him. Orson Welles directed...

Christmas Movies with Legs

vassar - December 23, 2012 0

How many blockbuster films can you name that everyone went to see once, but not again?

The Nurses of Corregidor

vassar - May 30, 2011 0

We've all been to places that were "heavy' not just with history, but the ghosts of men and women who have gone before us. I suppose the Alamo would have been such a heavy place...

The Ford Model T, Shoulders You All Stand On

vassar - February 13, 2023 0

Compliments of Safeshare.TV....all about the shoulders we stand on. And no, Germany, England nor France had a similar business model. Henry Ford build not just a car, but a process to build cars, so that...

Sad Mamas

vassar - February 9, 2023

Postscript I watched a gathering of parents and children at my YMCA gym for their weekly 2-hour session teaching young 5-6 year olds how to handle and shoot a basketball. About 20 kids, all races, each with a parent, mom or dad standing behind them,...

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.