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...eighth-grader, I have a strong opinion about the efforts to stop school violence. The safety and lockdown measures being taken in public schools are absurd and infringe on a student's already limited privacy. As for the "warning signs," isn't it a clear indication of danger when someone states that he has plans to kill another student? The profiling system, Mosaic, could forever cast an eight-year-old as a troublemaker, even if his crime were only drawing an armed stick figure. Friends would stay away from him, crippling any social life he might have. What a system...
...family which took her in, Laurie exploits her questionable medical condition to avoid helping, Nora dreams of her audition for the new musical extravaganza Abracadabra!, Stanley tries to conceal losing his own job that day and Eugene fantasizes about Nora and her recent "developments." The pressure explodes in an absurd yet well-orchestrated dinner scene over boiled liver and mashed potatoes...
...Katie: My analogy of rape is to car theft. You can buy heavy-duty anti-theft devices or loud alarms or devices that will disable your engine when a thief comes near. Women can choose to never be alone with a guy and other absurd extremes to protect themselves from rape. But, the car thief can still steal the car if they really want to. Women can reduce the risk, but ultimately rape will only end when rapists stop raping...
...discredited science. Distinguishing AIDS in Africa as a primarily heterosexual phenomenon that is destined to slash average life expectancy in his region to 47, Mbeki insisted that "as Africans we have to deal with this uniquely African catastrophe" and that simply accepting Western conventional wisdom on AIDS would be "absurd and illogical." Mbeki's remarks, in letter to President Clinton - which administration officials considered so unfortunate that they tried to avoid releasing it to the media - even likened those warning against the views of dissident AIDS scientists to the repressive apartheid regime and book-burning religious fanatics...
This thought was reinforced over this past weekend in the Stanley Cup playoffs. There was everything from the disastrously dramatic to the unbelievably absurd...