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Unsung Villains of World War I
“Bit players sometimes steal the show.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—7/21/2014—Let’s start with someone who was named Villain—Raoul Villain. He shot Jean Jaurès, the French socialist leader,…
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The Turbine Within Us
“The body uses a lot of ATP; in fact, even a sedentary man weighing around 150 lbs. requires around 183 lbs. of ATP each day.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose…
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An Anniversary Anthem
“. . . young men die because old men lie.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/30/2014—William Norman Ewer wrote little poetry. The British journalist (1885-1976) was chiefly known…
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Was It the Chicken, or the Egg?
“. . . the housing boom of 2002-2005 was . . . a banker-created excrescence.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/23/2014—Did the housing boom of 2002-2005 cause the…
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A Piketty Pot Pourri
“It is not true that globalization is the primary cause of the relative impoverishment of the American worker.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/16/2014—On dipping into Thomas Piketty’s…
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Teuton vs. Slav
“In acting against Serbia . . . Austria-Hungary and its ally, Germany, felt they were defending their Teutonic empires against . . . malevolent Slavs.”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose…
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Picking Up Piketty
“There looks to be more inequality in our future . . . .”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—6/2/2014—Everyone’s doing it–picking up Thomas Piketty’s chef d’oeuvre, Capital in…
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Pass the Prunes; We’ve Got To Go
“A growing segment of the aging population will work . . . to blunt the effect of undeniably adverse demographics . . . .”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE…
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My Last (Well, Perhaps Not Quite Last) Column on World War I
“. . . Britain agreed, at least initially, to look the other way if Austria-Hungary temporarily occupied Belgrade . . . .”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—5/22/2014—Since…