Famous Commn People

Famous Common People I Have Known, SGT Marty Gays in the Military, an Old...

vassar - September 3, 2018 0

"Policies Concerning Homosexuals" have changed since I was an Army defense lawyer in the closing years of the Vietnam War. "Being boarded out" was...

Days of Infamy?

vassar - January 6, 2021 0

Are the days of infamy behind us? Or are they just beginning? When President Roosevelt addressed Congress on December 8th, 1941 he said December 7th would...

Covid-19, a Report from Bulgaria from an Old Friend

vassar - May 17, 2020 0

Her name is Maria Georgieva, and I have known her for over 20 years. I last saw Mimi in 2008 just after I began...

Famous Common People I Have Known, A Dog Named Spook

vassar - April 4, 2013 0

I hope dogs go to heaven.

Memorial Day, 2021, With Special Prayers

vassar - May 26, 2021 0

Yesterday, I had lunch with my favorite surviving veteran, Command Sergeant-Major Fred Barnett, 88, and his adopted Korean son, Young. Regular YMCA patrons for...

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A Billionare Of Words

haystack - March 3, 2025

Special Features

Comparing Ukraine and Russia; Russification under Stalin and Ukraine;

vassar - October 25, 2024

American Exceptionalism

Highlighting David Poff’s Update on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense “Human Sense”

vassar - October 13, 2024

2024 election

JD Vance, Tim Walz, and Thomas Jefferson Reminding Us

vassar - October 2, 2024

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.