Word: absurdities
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...Super Size option in its current form stands for a seven-ounce order of fries and a 42-ounce drink—a step up from simply a “large” meal. To many, the very idea of this amount of food is absurd and Dartboard agrees that she has taken on the feat only twice in her life...
...that “The Practice” is finally being put out of its misery, David E. Kelley will create yet another highly popular, award-winning show and then torture it to death by making it completely absurd and melodramatic...
McNamara continued to just follow orders even after he’d privately concluded that the Vietnam War could not be won. He also lied repeatedly to Congress about the war. Owing to some absurd genteel code (apparently known only to himself), McNamara argues today that it’s “irresponsible for an ex-Secretary of Defense to comment…about a president who is in the midst of war… ” But even this is a prevarication. At the Kennedy School, McNamara made no secret of his disapproval of President Bush?...
...rather go naked than wear fur” campaign, they attracted a horde of students, press and local residents to the Square. Yet in spite of the event’s popularity, the college community was quick to slam PETA for pushing an absurd “pet” cause and using extremist tactics...
...people still disregard animal suffering whenever avoiding it would inconvenience them in any way. According to the unreflective PETA-bashing that appears in the media, just about anything that PETA does is “over the top,” and it’s apparently so obviously absurd to compare the plight of animals with the experiences of women, Holocaust victims and slaves that it isn’t worth offering a single argument against such comparisons...