Word: absurdism
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...former U.S. soldier who served in Iraq, I am ashamed of the abuse inflicted on Abu Ghraib prisoners by American troops [May 17]. The actions shown in the photographs were deliberate, and the soldiers' excuse that they were simply following orders is absurd. Every U.S. service member has the right to decline an order that is morally wrong. All the proper training in the world cannot replace a lack of morals. This scandal undermines everything that I and many others did to help the Iraqi people. Ross Edwards Palatine...
...point made by Krauthammer is patently absurd. Of course the impact of presidential policies and initiatives is far more subtle and complex than is often depicted in campaign rhetoric. But to assert that the economy is beyond a President's control is to ignore the wide-reaching effects of such fiscal policies as tax cuts and the setting of interest rates-which, even when they aren't enacted directly by the President, are introduced by his supporters. Krauthammer's view also ignores the blatant effect of government programs and spending on the economy. Budgets are a zero-sum game...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...campus with names like “The Lesbian Avengers” during its recent month of events, “Gaypril.” And in this way, too, BGLTSA excels at turning what might be an opportunity for serious and valid causes into theater of the absurd. Making the face of gays at Harvard that of a masked and over-sexed person with whip-in-hand does little to endear them to the general public, nor to make the average homosexual feel more at home on the campus or in their company. Indeed, many may be only...