Word: absurdism
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Considering the possibilities, it is almost absurd to think that pilots—many of whom have no experience with close range weaponry—will be effective deterrents to terrorists after a few weeks at FBI training camp. Quite frankly, it scares me to think that on my next flight home to Los Angeles, an air marshal may be sitting next to me with his finger on a trigger. With that image in mind, it is downright terrifying to think of an inexperienced, armed pilot. We hire pilots to fly planes, not to guard them...
...opening that hatred can be so absurd,” Khan said...
...video game about a prince and an onion-soup-loving demon. Andrej Stular's "Hole" has a single panel per page - an inky, scratchy image of urban grief accompanied by a word or phrase that may or may not connect to the next page. Most of the works follow absurd or dreamlike structures. It seems to be part of the psyche out there. Furthermore these artists' display broader graphical influences than most American cartoonists. Americans tend to use other cartoonists for inspiration, but these works put themselves in the context of the larger modernist and surrealist fine art movements. Only...
...more accurately, this is the conservative punk perspective. Of course, it’s almost absurd to mention conservatism and punk music in the same breath, but that’s the very point we hope to make. In order to battle a stubborn social and commercial hierarchy, the punks are forced to adopt their own equally stubborn and doctrinaire ethic about what should and should not be done. Within the punk culture, the political spectrum is inverted, but equally rigid: The hard-nosed right of the punk movement, the purists, hold all of the principles we?...
...This has been a time when ordinary people - firemen, policemen, volunteers - have been justly hailed as heroes. They only make the comicbook superheroes seem more artificial. But wondering if this spells their doom is absurd. If anything, the likes of Captain America and Superman can become more relevant during nationalist crises. After the start of World War II audiences couldn't get enough of seeing Hitler and Tojo's minions take it in the mush courtesy of Cap and Supes. Depending on the length and intensity of the coming "War on Terrorism," don't be surprised to see our fantasy...