Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson “I take walks to keep an eye on things.”—Annie Dillard CLEMSON…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “They [al Qaeda] cut off our heads. We put water on their face.”—Erich “Mancow” Muller “I was . . . ready to prove that this [waterboarding] was…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “We must restore to poetry the force of narrative.”—James Dickey “Abstractions are best understood in a story.”—Anonymous CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—6/27/11—The deeper I sally into my “anecdotage,”…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”—Vincent Van Gogh “Skip likes the quare thing that snaps the routine—in…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “On the train . . . [the Negro’s place] is in front; on the ship it is below; on the streetcar it is in the rear; and…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Nature is where yokels lived, idiotikos, as ancient Greeks used to call the unfortunates who lived outside the polis.”—Charles Simic “A leaven of wilderness is necessary for…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “May God protect us from hairy women and beardless men.”—Arab proverb “Not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.”—Nora Ephron CLEMSON…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “A corpse on the road of night . . . .”—Richard Burton “A circumambulating aphrodisiac . . . .”—Christopher Fry CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—4/25/11—My paternal grandfather’s speech…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “I never drink water because of the disgusting things fish do in it.”—W.C. Fields “I’ve taken a proprietary interest in our children and Lake Hartwell for over…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Grammar rules are banana peels on the sidewalk of life.”—Anonymous “Grammar is the art of putting language in its place on or off the sidewalk.”—Anonymous CLEMSON South…