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Joshua Nossiter Computer book author, novel & short story writer, columnist, blogger, bad poet.

Joshua Nossiter
Joshua Nossiter
San Francisco
Member since: Mar, 2009
Last login: 09/02/2009
Last update : 08/31/2009
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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 lives in San Francisco on a street named for the city's first literary editor.

     

     

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  • Deranged Debates

    August 31, 2009

    • 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 unmitigated evil under any circumstances. Contrary to every principle of civilization, and everything America stands for. And yet in the pages of our leading newspapers and incessantly on TV and radio, torture by our own ...
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  • Prescription for Sexual, Religious, and Political Discussions

    August 19, 2009

    • 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 anyone to navigate the shoals of debate on these topics. The rules are infallible, incorruptible, and incontrovertible. Follow them at your own peril. Political arguments are always heated and usually degenerate into an ad ...
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  • Slices of life

    August 5, 2009

    • SundayThe 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 not with grace,Unkempt, unbrushed, with sleepy face.The clock strikes noon. Time for lunch!But still they wait and wait – for brunch??Signaling Is For SissiesA cripple, the modern motorist,His extremities frozen tightHe ...
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  • Laurel and Hardy go to Washington

    March 23, 2009

    • 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 bone-heads. a fiscal Laurel and Hardy team that resembles the original in every way but one: there's nothing funny about them. Two men, one red-faced and stout, the other pale, lanky, and with stand-up hair. They are handed ...
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  • Maidoff Jailed? Hold the Celebration

    March 13, 2009

    • As giant headlines shriek his guilt, as the boobesphere division of the blogosphere calls for his evisceration, drawing and quartering, whatever, as crowds with pitchforks and burning torches cheer Ponzi King Bernard Madoff's one way trip to a federal pen, whither his partners in crime? Not his unsavory family, nor his Potemkin village employees or "accountants." Some among them are ...
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  • 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 staunchly for right, the Gary Coopers of the world, has dropped out of sight.

  • Thanks for that! Sometimes I

    Thanks for that! Sometimes I reread my own stuff and what I wrote depresses the hell out of me.

  • Money and power are very

    Money and power are very much behind much of this I agree. Vested interests protecting themselves by manipulating the gullible with plenty of well-funded disinformation.

  • 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 where yoga is concerned.

  • 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 life. Homeowner bailout discussion? Any time at all.

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