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  • How Many Lords, My Lump? The Sweetness of Error

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…

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  • The Greatest Happiness of the Whole: Government

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    Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Thanks to federal, state, and local government oversight, we no longer have to worry about minced rats in our sausage or lead in our gasoline. Paint is…

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  • Those Rough Spots on Michelangelo’s Marble: Perfection

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    Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Live defensively—the multiverse isn’t perfect.”—The Wordspinner “Glory be to God for dappled things . . . .”—Gerard Manley Hopkins CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—11/26/2012—Though Tina Fey recently argued…

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  • Waltzing to the Second Fiddle: Music

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    “I have occasionally purchased a CD after hearing a live performance only to be disappointed when I listened at home. There’s something about putting a face with a flamenco guitar or steel-drum set;…

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