Word: absurdism
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...entertainment value. Paul Pope has a unique imagination and the talent to realize it. The story feels familiar while the details - a killer with the mask of the horse in Picasso's "Guernica," the hunt for an artist rather than a killer, and absurd stick-figure robots -feel fresh. This combination of new and old basically defines a superior work of genre fiction...
...United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced that it would continue efforts to salvage other Afghan relics targeted for destruction, while museums offered the Taliban funds to transport the remaining objects of historical interest out of the country. But this policy demonstrates the absurd double standard of allocating resources to save art instead of lives. Our willingness to overlook the Taliban's illegitimate control of the statues in the first place is a glaring demonstration of our misplaced priorities in that we would negotiate for art but not for the betterment of living conditions...
...seem to shake their opposition to free trade between the rich and the poor. This bifurcated stance on trade has recently reared its ugly head in the form of the Democratic Party's opposition to the Bush tax cut. The Democrats' latest machinations are both saddening and logically absurd; the best way to help the poor, whether they live in poor nations or rich nations, is to allow them to trade with the rich of all nations...
Many would find it absurd to challenge Pluto's planetary qualifications. It circles our sun, it has a moon (Charon, the boatman of the Styx), it is roughly spherical, it has an atmosphere--and it has a cartoon dog named after it. If that's not enough for a planet, what...
...some gut level, the whole idea of electroshock therapy is absurd. At a time when people with mental illnesses can choose from a pharmacological cornucopia, why would they have electricity run through their brain instead? Didn't electroshock disappear around the same time as three-martini lunches...