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...carefree body language will make you want to get in the water and enjoy the season. HIGH NOON by Nora Roberts Anyone staring at the cover of this book is sure to be blinded either by the glare of the sun hitting its monochromatic orange palette or by the absurd ratio of author-letter size to title-letter size. Even if they do squint at the cover long enough to read the title, you’ll still look mysterious because they’ll have no idea what it’s about—a book titled...
...year-old yakuza (gangster) with ties to Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest criminal syndicate, seemed motivated less by politics than by a petty personal grievance. He blamed a minor car accident on city construction work and wanted $17,000 in damages from the Nagasaki government. The result was absurd: an aging hoodlum gunning down a high-profile politician over pride and a virtual pittance, like some Japanese version of The Sopranos' griping mobster Paulie Walnuts...
...joint. The DEA has never targeted the sick and dying. But as long as marijuana exists as a schedule one drug, we will enforce federal regulations and arrest anyone using or cultivating marijuana.”Grinspoon calls the federal government’s position “absurd.” He said that the common painkiller Aspirin causes more than 1,000 deaths each year, while there “has never been a documented death caused by marijuana.”“There will always be cases of abuse. After all, the drugs abused most...
Caldwell’s argument is an absurd non sequitur. She argues that because there are false accusations of rape, we should focus on women’s responsibility for their sexual behavior rather than attackers’ guilt. She fails to mention that deliberately false accusations of rape are exceedingly rare; the Duke Lacrosse case is just one sensationalized example. All accounts show that tens of thousands of rape cases each year are unreported or grossly mishandled by medical and legal response centers. She also neglects to explain how changing women’s “sexual behavior?...
...Bolaño begs to differ. As a young man, Bolaño gave up everything to pursue a life in poetry, believing that one should take poetry as seriously as he takes life, that if the author lived what he wrote, the reader would live it, too. This absurd, desperate, noble idea is at the heart of “The Savage Detectives,” a book so good that it is not only its own justification, but a justification for literature itself. Due in large part to this novel—the 1998 winner of the prestigious...