Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”—Exodus 22:18 Three hundred and nine years after five Salem women were hanged for witchcraft, they were exonerated by the…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “When dueling was legal, we were politer.”—Anonymous “When dueling was legal, we were meeker.”—The Wordspinner CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—12/12/11—I almost caused an accident recently listening to Dr.…

Skip the B.S.  by Skip Eisiminger “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”—William Shakespeare’s Juliet “He said true things but called them…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger  “Writing by hand makes you more apt to hear the inner voice.”—John Updike “Writing words by hand is a technology that’s just too slow for our times…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Eve ate of the apple, enticed Adam to eat of it as well, and all of us, as a result, are rotten to the core.” —Arthur Krystal…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Charles II slept through the sermon, but woke for Westminster’s great pipes.”—The Wordspinner “I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cow bells.”—Christopher Walken CLEMSON…

Skip the B.S.  by Skip Eisiminger “A new industry [photography] has arisen which contributes much to confirming stupidity in its faith and to ruining what might have remained of the divine in the…

Skip the B.S.  by Skip Eisiminger “Fearsome chess masters fear the fearlessness of Deep Fritz.”—The Wordspinner “Roll over Beethoven, dig these rhythm and blues.”—Chuck Berry CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—10/31/11—Several bad calls in the…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “The gods I worshipped demanded the dance of death. I had no other choice . . . .”—Adolf Eichmann  “Galileo’s raised middle finger points at the Vatican.”—The…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Those [willing to be eunuchs for heaven’s sake] should accept it.”—Jesus of Nazareth “Let but one tenth part of humanity pursue [asceticism] consistently, and in a day’s…