Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “First rule: leave [the children] alone . . . .” —D.H. Lawrence “When we use play to promote fitness and prevent heart attacks, ‘we change its gold…

Skip the BS. by Skip Eisiminger “Our accents are lost when we laugh.” —Anonymous “Laughter is the surest lingua franca.”—The Wordspinner CLEMSON, SC—(Weekly Hubris)—11/8/10—“Woe unto you” who feel inclined to laugh, warned Jesus,…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.”—Sir Isaac Newton “The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”—Jacob…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Nothing human is alien to me.”—Terrence “As the Apple is pulled down, the Earth is pulled up.”—The Wordspinner CLEMSON, SC—(Weekly Hubris)—10/4/10—Though surely inevitable, the strain created by…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “All perception of truth is the perception of analogy; we reason from our hands to our head.”—Henry David Thoreau “All of us get our thoughts entangled in…

Skip the BS. By Skip Eisiminger “Quilting is a useful hobby for the elderly, wherein the crap of a lifetime can be turned into a patchwork comforter.” —Anonymous “A malapropism is a form…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “There’s an old proverb that says just about anything you want it to.” —Anonymous “Solomon made a book of proverbs, but a book of proverbs never made…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “God made everything out of the void, but the void shines through.” —Paul Valery “Anyone who isn’t confused doesn’t really understand the situation.” —Edward R. Murrow Clemson,…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Twenty tons of rock in a clipper’s hold/on the high seas is worth its weight in gold.” —The Wordspinner “The past has a vote, not a veto.”…

Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “A tombstone is one of the few things that can stand upright and lie on its face.”—Mary Wilson Little “Caution: gravity.”—The Wordspinner CLEMSON, SC—(Weekly Hubris)—6/14/10—Perhaps to avoid…