Word: absurdities
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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...
...undergraduate football manager during that season, Francis N. Millett, Jr. ’54, said at the time that accusations of scalping against “the football community are absurd and not worthy of comment...
...even stripped-down Wallace is epic modernism: big plots, absurd Beckettian humor and science-fiction-height ideas portrayed vis-a-vis slow, realistic stream of consciousness. In an effort to make his often bizarre endings more powerful, Wallace frequently stops stories before their climax, which sometimes improves them and sometimes makes them seem like an aborted attempt at a novel. When it works, it's part of his Pynchonesque trick of keeping the reader uncomfortable by withholding information and embedding the most devastating facts within long descriptive paragraphs...
...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...
...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...