Word: absurdism
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...Kennedy said on Wednesday as he asked for the club’s records to be subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. An article in The Washington Times yesterday first drew parallels between CAP and the Owl, but a spokeswoman for Kennedy called the comparison “absurd.” “This social club has zero in common with CAP, an organization designed to promote an agenda that rolled back the clock on equality and justice,” the spokeswoman, Laura Capps, said in an interview on Wednesday night. Capps noted that when Kennedy graduated...
...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...
...example of an unwarranted assumption.In the 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.”At this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy...
...Anyone who thought they outgrew superheroes, or never thought they would like them, should give Concrete a try. Though he looks like a rock pile and has super-strength, he's actually a nervous, left-leaning smarty who copes with issues like population control rather than absurd super-villains. While staying true to the requirements of the genre by creating dynamic action scenes and melodramatic storylines, like having Concrete, who is ostensibly male, get pregnant, Chadwick keeps Concrete grounded to the real world. Released this year as a six part series, watch for "The Human Dilemma" collection in 2006, along...
...without SSN’s have to submit a handful of forms and I.D.’s such a passport, F-1 visa, student I.D., birth certificate, and two to three proofs of current address, when just nine digits would do. Cell phone companies, for example, require an absurd amount of deposit in addition to a number of papers in place of a SSN. I got my phone after depositing $400 to Verizon Wireless.Furthermore, credit card companies check a person’s credit based entirely on his or her SSN. People without a SSN are thus without credit...