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From Technophobe to Alpha Geek: Computers
Skip the BS. by Skip Eisiminger “Hackito ergo sum.”—Anonymous President Eisenhower:“Is there a God?” Anonymous Computer:“There is now.” CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—10/3/11—In 1946,The University of Pennsylvania’s ENIAC computer, built for the US Army,…
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The Emperor Is Naked: Deconstructionism
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—9/26/11—On October 11, 2004, I read a longish obituary of Jacques Derrida, the famed French deconstructionist critic who had generated tsunamis in the literary…
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The Primal Shrug: Nature’s Indifference & The Church
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst…
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One or Two Degrees of Separation: Celebrity by Proxy
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”—Daniel Boorstin “I was lucky enough to marry a girl who had been bitten by one of…
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Rolling with the Punches: Indifference
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “In a fight between you and the world, bet on the world.”—Franz Kafka “I don’t know. I don’t care. And it doesn’t make any difference.”—Jack Kerouac CLEMSON…
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Awkwardly Sharing the Same Bed: Humor and Suicide
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Let your enemy kill you, but don’t kill yourself.”—Hebrew adage “[Suicide] is the privilege of humans, which the deity does not possess.”—Pliny the Elder CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly…
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From Femurs to Flutes: Aboriginals
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Nothing is gentler than man in his primitive state.”—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1755 “Rousseau was completely wrong.”—Jared Diamond, 2008 CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—8/22/11—In The Dragons of Eden, polymath Carl…
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My Family of World War Two Scofflaws: On Inspired Disobedience
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Hitler is always right.”—Rudolf Hess “Human history began with an act of disobedience—it is likely to end with an act of obedience.”—Erich Fromm CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—8/15/11—Shortly…
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Doing Odd Things to Get Even: Revenge
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “When I can’t find my shoes, I turn The Holy Mother to the wall.”—Anonymous “Vengeance belongs to time and the Lord.”—Doris Betts CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—8/8/11—Near the…
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The Libido for the Beautiful
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Advanced Buttocks”—Chapter title in Jane Fonda’sWorkout Book, 1984 “Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe.”—Gabriela Mistral CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—8/1/11—Waiting for a ship…