“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,…

Waking Point By Helen Noakes “I wonder at the detachment with which I watch these people plunder and destroy those weaker than themselves, along with their own souls. Oh, I speak up once…

“A sequence of overlapping periods in which I did not hear this clock at all stretches through the capillaries of memory, back to my childhood, when the clock spoke regularly and with dignified…

“The view haunted me for decades, and I was determined to paint it. When I finally returned to sketch the scene beneath the bridge, nothing had changed, even the clothes on the line,…

“As inadequate a representation as one letter is of a year’s work, there are worse ways to evaluate people. In the 17th century, Harvard graduated students by their social rank, not their grade-point…

“Before you were born./Before your mother was born./Before your uncles were born./When fish could slither on the land./Three young men wanted me for a wife./Three young men, and one old fish, a grouper…

“Summer’s heat brings changes. The exuberant flush of wild growth and mad flowering, the unstoppable compulsion to reproduce that defines callow springtime, gives way to a slower-paced savoring of the gifts of the…

“The Fed allowed itself to be distracted by a misguided concern with headline inflation . . . .”—By Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—7/14/2014—Post mortems on the Great…

Won Over By Reality By Tim Bayer BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—7/7/2014—Excellent is the word I would use to describe the quality of the footage, music, and editing of the compilation video that was…

“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…