Teachings

Putting the “Service” Back Into Public Service, Part IV

vassar - April 28, 2011 0

This is Part IV of the series, A History of Government Employment. Everything we have learned, from public employment in the USSR, the European Union and Wisconsin tells us that... Bureaucracy kills. And it kills totally. And...

Can a Sane Society Elect a Demented Man for President?

vassar - November 1, 2020 0

Thankfully, we only have to think about this sort of thing for three more days, for however the courts decide how it will end, our parts in it will be done; our minds made...

Mark Twain, Caiaphas and the Mystery of Satan

vassar - September 20, 2021 2

During one of his stand-up routines late in life, Mark Twain said he'd always wanted to meet Satan. Shake his hand. (I paraphrase from memory)..."He must have had executive experience. After all, he is...

Natural Law, Afghanistan and Vietnam, Have We Learned Anything?

vassar - August 18, 2021 0

I had a new chapter in my How Things Work in Natural Law series already outlined when History suddenly repeated itself over the past few days, proving the viability of those laws, which I'll...

Bill Clinton at 75, the Archetype of the Type

vassar - September 22, 2021 0

Bill Clinton turned 75 in August, born the first year of the Baby Boom generation. (15 months after me.) As you know "Laws of Generations" are a big deal with me in defining and...

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Sage-isms

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.