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...story says "all the moons lacked was the heat needed to get biological chemistry going." Life is much more complex than this. The statement made by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that "we have organic chemicals mixed into a bath of water. That's a recipe for life" is absurd. The idea that a chemical cocktail stimulated by heat will produce biological life is an insult to science and those who work in the various fields of biology. I suggest that intelligent and fully ordered life such as we have on Earth is not the result of mere chance...
...Western civilization was no match for an unadulterated reading period. No classes, no sections, no unit tests; just me and my books. It was glorious. In the morning, I'd tackle the Industrial Revolution. In the afternoon, World War I. And in the evening, that memoir by Orwell. Sounds absurd--but by the time my exams rolled around, I was thoroughly steeped in the coursework, spouting facts out every orifice, composing essays on the way to breakfast...
Blair saw it differently. He said at the time that "it was absurd that the one guiding value the Labour Party has in its constitution is wholesale nationalization, when, in fact, the party no longer believes in it." He traveled the country selling his view and was again vigorously opposed by the unions. "We didn't like the idea that Blair was hijacking the party by changing Clause IV," says John Cogger, president of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers. "It's our party, created by my union in 1899." It took two tries, but Blair finally...
Muchmore's criticism of Alon Hilu's play could have been applied to almost any play by Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionescu or other Absurd playwrights. "The same joke is repeated relentlessly," writes Muchmore. "It then turns out that the whole conflict has also ocurred mulitple times...[the characters in the play] inhabit their own world, one that lacks meaningful contact with the real world...it walks a thin line between reality and oddball fantasy...[and] asks a few more questions than it ends up answering...The characters succesfully end up seeming crazy without being enlightening...[and the play] never gives...
Herzog became particularly well known as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations when, in 1975, he tore up a resolution equating Zionism with racism in front of the UN General Assembly, calling the body a "theater of the absurd...