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The Highest Cauldron  By Anita Sullivan “To say how many green-greys there are is impossible” From the Letters of Vincent van Gogh  EUGENE Oregon—(Weekly Hubris)—5/20/2013—–I’m listening to Grigory Sokolov play Bach’s “Art of the Fugue,” which is like being present at the Dawn of the World and, for some reason, I think about how I [...]

“As the reader no doubt recalls, after the assassination, Austria presented Serbia with an ultimatum. Serbia appeared to accept most of it, though really did not, and proceeded to mobilize. Russia then mobilized in sympathy with Serbia. Austria declared war on Serbia. France mobilized in support of Russia. Germany mobilized in fear of Russia and [...]

Won Over By Reality By Tim Bayer BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—5/20/2013—In the event that you missed my last post, the video most recently occupying this space was titled, Call Me Maybe (Military Style). I’m a fan of the Star Trek franchise, but you needn’t to be a fan to warm to today’s video offering. If [...]

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger   “From the appearance of things on the Clemson campus, it seems that about half the student body is on the phone at any given time while the other half is wondering why no one ever calls. For all those on the phone or thumbing away at a text, [...]

“Thus, to avoid giving the Irish their rights, reactionary Britishers helped to foment a war that, together with a second war spawned by this first one, effectively ended the British empire of which these people were so inordinately proud.” Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/13/2013—And you thought, following Thomas Cahill’s 1996 book, that they saved [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “Meanwhile, before sunset, the men take down the beast and lay it on plastic sheets on top of our big marble table. They do unspeakable things to it that include skewering, rubbing it with lemon inside and out, piercing it with garlic and rosemary, and [...]

“We were impostors. Smoking or religiously tending ivy or re-writing until the early morning had nothing of the inevitable single-mindedness and the impoverishment of everyday life that ensues when the self becomes wholly identified with the object of one’s hunger.” Stefanos Christoforos Breach of Close By Stefanos Christoforos ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—5/13/2013—Ileana arrived at Martha’s tea with [...]

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “In nature’s eyes, humans are as expendable as any of the 8.7 million species on the planet. And yet, is there another mammal who can do a back flip through a basketball net uninjured, take twelve strides across a lake’s surface without sinking, do a series of backflips on [...]