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Skip the B. S. By Skip Eisiminger “Someone said that civilization began when the first hominid said, ‘Welcome’ instead of braining a traveler with his club. I used to remind my Humanities classes…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Sarah, the mother of a friend, loves to gather the clan, drive with them to the beach, and spend a week each summer in ‘The Blue House,’…

Skip the B.S. Skip Eisiminger “Unlike his Greek neighbors, the author of Genesis took a different approach to the subject of man’s mortality: humans were created, He/She said, from the dust and bones…

“Otto’s name for the corner of the basement where my desk is located was the German ‘Kabuff,’ but that word implies a dark, dusty studio, and my stateside kabuff is ‘a clean, well-lighted…

“As a founding member of the AAAAAA, the American Association Against Acronym Abuse Anonymous, I ask your forgiveness for the epigraph above. I could not resist. The AAAAAA, which operates out of my…

“While I do appreciate the sun-ripened fruits that line my breakfast bowl, my worshipful awe stems more from Sol’s drop-mike nonchalance. As Galileo said, while Sol keeps his eight planets in line over…

“Despondent as I am at the prospect of Trump’s second term, I take hope in the long view offered by Georg Hegel’s dialectic. Since 3200 BC, the start of recorded history, every new…

“Despite my respect for the truth, if a badly dressed lunatic crawls in an open window, waves a knife under my nose, and demands to know where my wife is, I’ll tell him…