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McNamara continued to just follow orders even after he’d privately concluded that the Vietnam War could not be won. He also lied repeatedly to Congress about the war. Owing to some absurd genteel code (apparently known only to himself), McNamara argues today that it’s “irresponsible for an ex-Secretary of Defense to comment…about a president who is in the midst of war… ” But even this is a prevarication. At the Kennedy School, McNamara made no secret of his disapproval of President Bush?...
...rather go naked than wear fur” campaign, they attracted a horde of students, press and local residents to the Square. Yet in spite of the event’s popularity, the college community was quick to slam PETA for pushing an absurd “pet” cause and using extremist tactics...
...people still disregard animal suffering whenever avoiding it would inconvenience them in any way. According to the unreflective PETA-bashing that appears in the media, just about anything that PETA does is “over the top,” and it’s apparently so obviously absurd to compare the plight of animals with the experiences of women, Holocaust victims and slaves that it isn’t worth offering a single argument against such comparisons...
...idea that because individual Americans died, 9/11 - whether as image, event or political issue - is outside the public domain is absurd. By that logic, Franklin Roosevelt would have been prevented from invoking Pearl Harbor in his 1944 re-election campaign. In fact, he not only invoked it many times ("The American people are not panicked easily," he said in a White House radio address just five days before the election. "Pearl Harbor proved that") but visited Pearl in July 1944, at the very kickoff of his campaign...
...dresses that made us want to gag that really count. Poor Uma Thurman. A woman who consistently wears some of the finest clothes in the fashion world, Uma must have had a blunt object hit her before the show, because her pseudo-kimono-warrior-princess dress was absurd. Her ensemble was either a feeble attempt at educating herself on international culture or a cheap promotion for Kill Bill. Either way, this mishap will be forgiven but not forgotten...