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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 [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House. “Etiope . . . hathe a riche contrey. In it be many trees aromatikes and many mynes of fyne gold, and the people of this contrey be so riche that ther be many marchantes housys covered with golde as we do here cover our houses with leade, and that thei [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—Let’s get some things straight right off the bat. 1) I’m neither a genius nor a fabulously disciplined super-athlete; 2) I was never, ever, a “natural athlete” (a click murmur and early health problems, plus my usually being 3-4 years younger than my classmates pretty [...]

Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler Editor’s Note: Since Wayne’s still convalescing, Weekly Hubris offers up yet another of his early columns for the –zine. ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly Hubris)—1/23/12—Anyone who has been to Anchorage, Alaska knows that we are surrounded by mountain ranges, most notably the spectacular Chugach Range, which looms over the city like protective [...]

Out to Pastoral by John Idol BURLINGTON North Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—No fancy riding habit, no well-groomed steeds, no blast on a hunting horn, no cry of “Tally-Ho” and the sound of galloping hoofs. Barking, eager hounds, yes, but a pack of fewer than a dozen, most of them selected for their stamina, voice, and ability to [...]

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Take no counsel from your fears.”—Stonewall Jackson “Take the counsel of your fears.”—American Proverb CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—If the creator has ever visited this planet, I have a good idea of where and when that was: England, 1943. My father still tells a story that he heard from an [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—Like the other dilapidated houses on the block next to the train tracks, the Klimaka shelter for the homeless is covered with bold graffiti. They practically blot out its tomato-red façade and certainly distract attention from the name on its open door. I [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House “That amazing unknown country, Prester John’s fabled land of inaccessible mountain barriers and bottomless chasms, and wild, war-loving beautiful folk.”—George MacDonald Fraser BACK IN LONDON England—(Weekly Hubris)—1/23/12—Fraser was writing about Ethiopia in 1868, when Britain sent an expeditionary force to rescue hostages held by mad, brilliant Emperor Theodore (Teeodros), who [...]

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—1/23/12—The days of our years are threescore and ten and, if by reason of strength they be fourscore, yet is their strength labor and sorrow . . . . So says the psalm and, for most people, it rings true. There have been impressive increases in life [...]

Out to Pastoral by John Idol BURLINGTON North Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—1/15/12—Few documents stir up as much controversy as the Ten Commandments. Few have such an interesting history. The story begins in the book of Exodus and, presumably, will have no ending, since the original source of the commandments will repose in the New Temple in the [...]