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Welcome to television’s new theater of the absurd...
Perhaps the most egregious of the Doctor’s sins is the abandonment of good medicine. When recently questioned about the accuracy of claims in the literature for Bush’s favored sex-education plan, Frist tap-danced around such absurd claims as condoms having no ability to prevent the transmission of AIDS and the potential of AIDS being transmitted by saliva and sweat. Frist knows these claims are fraudulent. Suggesting that they are true presents an enormous risk to public health and shows that Frist cares more about votes than lives...
...hijack” Senior Gift. The site suggests a number of causes that students could use for boycotting the Gift. The first suggestion is that students justify their boycott based on a desire to see Harvard divest from U.S. Government T-Bills, and the others are similarly absurd. The site’s creators include an explanation of the serious point they are trying to make. They want, according to the site, to “point out that everyone has gripes with Harvard be they serious or stupid.” “‘Plus?...
Watching, discussing, and analyzing The OC may seem like an absurd pastime. But if you can find meaning in this absurd pastime, chances are you can find meaning in that other absurd pastime called life...
...perhaps the most absurd passage of a thoroughly absurd book, Wiener writes: “Gray, Katz, and Ulrich are guilty of…suppressing inconvenient evidence, spinning the data their way, [and] refusing to follow leads that didn’t serve their thesis.” But Wiener never explains what evidence was suppressed or what leads weren’t followed. He gives his reader no reason to believe that Gray, Katz, and Ulrich spun their data...