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Aug.31.2009 - 2:47 pm
Deranged Debates
Welcome to the era of Deranged Debate, in which subjects utterly beyond the pale are treated as worthy of serious argument.Torture? Criminally barbarous at all times. An...
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Aug.19.2009 - 12:52 pm
Prescription for Sexual, Religious, and Political Discussions
The well brought-up are taught to avoid discussing religion and politics at dinner, while sex is never to be mentioned under any circumstances. But the following rules allow...
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Aug.05.2009 - 11:39 am
Slices of life
Sunday The line extends down the block.They read or stare; earphones play rock.They wait, in flipflops and tee shirts.Few have energy to chat; none flirts. They wait patiently if...
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Mar.23.2009 - 11:00 am
Laurel and Hardy go to Washington
Now that we're all incensed with the Obama economic team, is it too late to point out that we should have seen this coming? We keep lavishing rewards on a couple of inveterate...
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Poem: Cloning Jeans
Poem: The New Fifty
Poem: Road to Riches

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Sep.02.2009 - 8:36 am
In response to: Putting Down My Dukes
Odd how that ideal of the
Odd how that ideal of the quiet fighter for truth and justice, the strong, silent type who nevertheless fights...
Sep.02.2009 - 8:24 am
In response to: Deranged Debates
Thanks for that! Sometimes I
Thanks for that! Sometimes I reread my own stuff and what I wrote depresses the hell out of me.
Aug.31.2009 - 4:10 pm
In response to: And another thing!
Money and power are very
Money and power are very much behind much of this I agree. Vested interests protecting themselves by manipulating the...
Aug.26.2009 - 12:31 pm
In response to: Is There a Housing Cemetery nearby?
Too many years of tennis and
Too many years of tennis and squash abuse have left me about as flexible as a wooden plank so I might be a lost cause...
Aug.23.2009 - 3:16 pm
In response to: Is There a Housing Cemetery nearby?
A tennis buddy took me to
A tennis buddy took me to yoga class once and although I couldn't do a single posture, I've never sweated so much in my...
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  Joshua Nossiter has worked as a broadcaster in California and in municipal finance on Wall Street.  Raised in Paris, New Delhi, London, and Washington D.C., he once lived on a San Francisco street named for the city's first literary editor.  ...
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Pickwick Papers, Fathers and Sons, Pride and Prejudice, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, War and Peace, Oblomov, Murder Must Advertise, The Complete...

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