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“Writing is a form of self-display. Self-display of any sort appears to raise the level of dopamine in the brain, much as does the ingestion of food, the acquisition of money or a sexual act.” Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/14/12—It’s the fault of the mesolimbic system. That’s the part [...]

Dolors & Sense  by Sanford Rose “. . . the crucial point is that unless the government stimulates now in order to lift output, future output will unquestionably fall, and probably by a lot more than 1 percent.” Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/7/12—The morons who appear to control Washington’s political and legislative life are ruining [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—3/26/12—No, this isn’t about contraception. It’s about proception. And not life in the form of a new individual. But rather life in the form of a revitalized older one. This pill is not anti-anything. It is the anti-anti-pill. This pill (of the future, perhaps very near future) [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—Just a reminder: I’m a retired Floridian living in a gated elder-citizen community. This means that I live at the junction of Arthroplasty Avenue and Laminectomy Lane—otherwise dubbed Orthopedist’s Oasis. Or, rather, Happy Hunting Grounds. Most of my neighbors have bad knees, backs and hips. They spend [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose  KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—3/12/12—The locution now stirs few remembrances. It did once. In 1936, four armed columns marched on Madrid. A fifth within the city stood ready to open its gates to the enemy. The expression “fifth columnist” was synonymous for the next 20 years with execrable treason. Our brains [...]

Dolors & Sense  by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—3/5/12—Yeah, it’s scary. The gland keeps getting bigger, from a walnut to perhaps a lemon. What weighed 20 to 30 grams can get to upward of 50, and maybe even 100 grams. The first stage is dubbed benign prostatic hyperplasia. By age 80, close to 90 percent [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—2/20/12—Someone recently suggested that we probably get more mail in a day, mostly via the Internet, than our grandparents (my parents) got in a lifetime. We are overstimulated, oversensationalized, overwrought. This dysfunctionality is compounded by a chemically adulterated food supply grown in increasingly impoverished soils and supplemented [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—2/13/12—There is nothing wrong with hitting the same note—repeatedly and relentlessly. Provided it’s the right note. The right note for the last nearly four years has been housing. Its continued depression remains the economy’s albatross. Until housing recovers, we won’t recover. Until we recover, the world won’t [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—2/6/12—Men love to lift weights—especially from a bench. There are few acts quite so gratifying to the typical male ego as is the repetitive lowering and re-hoisting, in a recumbent position, of an inordinate amount of iron from the extent of the reach of one’s arms to [...]

Dolors & Sense  by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—Every so often a newspaper or magazine will publish a grandiose analysis of the so-called economics of exercise. Such articles purport to view exercising in a capital-budgeting framework: projecting the likely increase in longevity from an exercise program vs. the temporal and monetary costs of engaging in [...]