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Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Win or lose, the king and his pawns retire to the same box.”—Iraqi proverb “Second place is the silver bruise.”—The Wordspinner  CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—3/26/12—Like everyone else, I come from a mixed clan of winners and losers, but perhaps no one in the family understood defeat better than my [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—3/26/12—“Tyrannosaura Scriptoloathica,” c’est moi. And I thought I was a rara enough avis writing a first erotic novel, at 59. Then, Mr. Smartypants Hollywood Director (you know who you are) tapped me to write the screenplay from the novel. By May 1. Which was a [...]

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) [...]

Waking Point by Helen Noakes “…maybe death/isn’t darkness, after all/but so much light/wrapping itself around us…”—Mary Oliver, “White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field” SAN FRANCISCO California—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—It is said that the Buddha’s last words were, “Make yourself a light.” And, thus, he went peacefully into the mystery of death. His life-long message [...]

Out to Pastoral John L. Idol BURLINGTON North Carolina—(Weekly Hubris) —3/19/12—Most of us begrudgingly render unto Caesar what Caesar needs to run town, state, or nation. Tax-dodgers live amongst us, but enough of us, having tallied as many deductions as the tax laws allow, do give Caesar a piece of our American pie. He’s not [...]

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 [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House, FRGS Prohibition didn’t work with alcohol and it’s not working with drugs.” KINGS SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—A brave and wise senior police officer has called for the decriminalization of all illicit narcotics and an end to the UK’s failed “war on drugs.” Richard Brunstrom, the Chief Constable of North Wales, made [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge by Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—Did you know that one in eleven residents of greater Athens visits a soup kitchen daily? That’s about 400,000 people, a figure unthinkable a year ago. And after the tragic events that accompanied the Greek Parliament’s vote on the night of 12 February [...]

Where Words Go by Becky Dennison Sakellariou  ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—  Estranged . . . “A Long Time the Place Was Empty” from “Little Horse” by W.S. Merwin (The Carrier of Ladders) Tonight here with you, the place where my hand might rest between your ribs collapses slightly as you curl up to sleep. The skin [...]

Skip the B.S.  By Skip Eisiminger “Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.”—Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)  “When the state stubs out a life in its hand, the light grows dimmer all over the land.”—The Wordspinner (D-South Carolina) CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—Though their beloved innocent writhed on a cross for six [...]