About

Name: Rick Vassar
Weblog: www.vassargroup.com
Articles: 27
First Published: Monday, April 16, 2007
Last Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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Rick Vassar CPCU, ARM, AIS, ARM-P is a risk manager and the author of Hide! Here Comes the Insurance Guy, where he uses humor to explain insurance strategies in language everyone can understand. If you are looking for cost savings in your insurance program, check us out at vassargroup.com
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Currently listing articles 27-1:
  1. How Do You Survive a 47 Story Fall? You Don’t

    — For commercial properties, safety is essential, and attainable.

    NEWS in Culture on January 30, 2008

  2. Joe Gibbs Resigns - Now What?

    — The Washington Redskins will never right the ship until Dan Snyder sells the team.

    OPINION in Sports on January 08, 2008

  3. Blogcritics Way Out Front on Bayh Story

    — National Press Club president six months behind bloggers with her "breaking" story.

    NEWS in Politics on December 17, 2007

  4. My Favorite Clean Jokes

    — Normal people are just people you don't know very well.

    SATIRE in Culture on December 12, 2007

  5. The Washington Redskins: A Franchise's Downward Spiral

    — Dan Snyder has got to go.

    OPINION in Sports on December 04, 2007

  6. The Vioxx Settlement – A Lesson in Corporate Risk Management

    — Merck shows how NOT to handle lawsuits.

    NEWS in Sci/Tech on November 12, 2007

  7. Satire: I Don’t Care Who You Are - That’s Funny!

    — Police across the nation are reporting an upswing in this type of violence, as more and more pets fight for constitutional protections.

    SATIRE in Culture on November 07, 2007

  8. How Would You Know? House Holds Hearings on Drug Safety

    — The House is looking into foreign drug safety. Will anything change?

    NEWS in Politics on November 01, 2007

  9. The Wild Wild West: Blogging Gone Bad

    — If it's not yours, don't take it. If you do take it, give credit where credit is due.

    OPINION in Sci/Tech on October 11, 2007

  10. Who Cares? Casualties of the 24-Hour News Cycle

    — We no longer have cable at our house because the kids found it magically delicious. Ah, but I liked it, too.

    OPINION in Culture on October 10, 2007

  11. Making Hay While the Sun Shines: How the Power of Influence Influences Power

    — Members of Congress should not profit from their legislation, but their spouses can. How can this be?

    NEWS in Politics on July 03, 2007

  12. How Good Are Your Drugs? (Part 4)

    — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is faltering in their attempts to safeguard drug distribution and prescription medications quality in the United States and

    NEWS in Sci/Tech on June 25, 2007

  13. Barry Bonds – You Can’t Have It Both Ways

    — Barry Bonds has been unfairly declared unworthy by baseball and the mainstream media, although he has never been indicted or suspended.

    OPINION in Sports on June 06, 2007

  14. The Reluctant Coach

    — Sometimes in sports, encouragement comes when you least expect it.

    OPINION in Sports on June 01, 2007

  15. Update: How Good Are Your Drugs (Part 3) – GUILTY!!

    — Government sponsored Internet pharmacies, unlicensed doctors as medical directors; is health care in chaos?

    NEWS in Sci/Tech on May 24, 2007

  16. I Don’t Care Who You Are - That’s Funny!! – Headlines

    — I love my headlines!!

    SATIRE in Culture on May 22, 2007

  17. Pure Country 2: Pure Hollywood Gold

    — Hollywood seems to lacking for new ideas. How about Pure Country 2?

    SATIRE in Video on May 17, 2007

  18. Headlines - Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

    — There is always a back story to every news report. Sometimes, it's just better to speculate...

    SATIRE in Culture on May 14, 2007

  19. How Good Are Your Drugs? (Part 3)

    — Pharmaceuticals are big business. See how a partnership between the State of Maine and an Indian tribe went terribly wrong.

    NEWS in Sci/Tech on May 08, 2007

  20. How Good Are Your Drugs? (Part Two)

    — Pharmaceutical wholesalers are running footloose and fancy free. Surely, the drug manufacturers must be closely watched, right?

    NEWS in Sci/Tech on April 30, 2007

  21. How Good Are Your Drugs?

    — If you think the prescription drugs you are taking meet the highest standards of purity, think again.

    NEWS in Sci/Tech on April 25, 2007

  22. "Blessed July" Proves The Saddam Regime Was a Terrorist Regime

    — Evidence continues to mount that the Bush administration's decision to go to war in Iraq was a good one.

    NEWS in Politics on April 25, 2007

  23. Where Is God?

    — In the wake of the Virginia Tech horror, many will ask Where Was God?

    OPINION in Culture on April 23, 2007

  24. 5-4: The Genius of George W. Bush

    — Utilizing a strategy that caught the opposition completely off guard, President Bush gets the Supreme Court he wanted

    OPINION in Politics on April 19, 2007

  25. The State of Connecticut vs. Dr. Charles Ray Jones - A Hangin’ In Hartford

    — When health insurers can't get what they want, they turn doctor against doctor.

    NEWS in Politics on April 17, 2007

  26. Don Imus and The Language of Race

    — Don Imus' comment has opened the conversation on race. Maybe we should look at the language instead.

    OPINION in Culture on April 16, 2007

  27. Barry Bonds: Baseball May Get The Home Run King It Deserves

    — Barry Bonds is going to break Hank Aaron's home run record. Does baseball share responsibility for the steroid controversy?

    OPINION in Sports on April 16, 2007

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