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A Log with Nine or Ten Knotholes: Defining Man
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…
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Standing on a Whale Fishing for Minnows: Seeing
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “The older my ‘Presbyterian’ eyes get, the more I realize that the world, including my reflection in the mirror, looks a lot better when I take my…
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Pack Rats & Archivists: Collecting
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Personally, I favor the example set by Charles Darwin who as a boy collected specimens of the Coleopteran order. Once, with a beetle in each hand and…
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How Many Lords, My Lump? The Sweetness of Error
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “The realm of student errors is a kaleidoscopic thicket where Mother Teresa achieves ‘St. Hood,’ bankers seek the ‘Notary Republic,’ Jesus is interrogated by ‘Poncho Pilate,’ and…
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Lighting the Candle (versus Cursing the Darkness): Stoics
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “One anonymous prisoner, who’d come to grips with spending the rest of his life behind bars, told his interviewer, ‘Well, at least in here you always have…
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Limits on The All-Smitey: Omniscience & Omnipotence
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Every time I take a walk or bike ride, I am thankful for the ‘body of God’ and man’s warm crease in it, but I gave up…
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Picking Pockets: Games of Chance
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Though gamblers will deny it, many are careless people. In 2007, when the Sands Casino in Atlantic City removed all the machines prior to demolishing the place,…
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A Lilting Legacy: Light Verse
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “. . . if you’ve ever learned ‘Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,’ you will doubtless recall that he ‘jumped over a candlestick.’ And if you ever…
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Testing Positive for Negativity: Cynicism
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “After some less than successful surgery a while back, I was frankly in a Biercian funk . . . . My naturally sunny self had been deposited…
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Points of Ordure: Excreta
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “It has reached the point where one cannot follow a septic tank ‘stool bus’ without finding an execrable pun. One poker-challenged, toilet-wise trucker boasted that ‘a flush…