Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That's a long process, one that will probably coincide with an economic slowdown (or recession) followed by another expansion. Thinking it can all work out in just one year is absurd. But so is the most pessimistic view. Technology spending is slowing, but only temporarily. Tech remains a long-term growth industry, and when it revives, tech stocks will again outpace broader market measures...
...David Boring," by Daniel Clowes Sharing similar themes with "Jimmy Corrigan," "David Boring" features a young man with a vanished father and a clinging mother. But its grayish-blue palette and more conventional layout give it an air of grim seriousness against which take place completely absurd events. (At one point Boring gets shot in the head but merely suffers a dent in his brow.) Clowes has made "David Boring" the most readable comic novel of the year...
...electors" by adhering to the deadline. Really? Then what about the court's own deadline of Nov. 26? It caused Miami-Dade officials to shut down their recount completely. According to its own logic, the court has disenfranchised thousands of Miami-Dade voters. But the whole disenfranchisement charge is absurd in any case. The plain fact is that any deadline must necessarily "disenfranchise" voters--or it would not be a deadline, i.e., a date after which otherwise legal ballots must be ignored. We must nonetheless have deadlines, or no election would ever...
...think it's probably safe to say that on November 7 more Floridians went to the polls with the intention of voting for Al Gore than for George Bush. The absurd butterfly ballots, the ridiculous punch card technology, the confusing instructions to African-American voters, all conspired against Gore and those who wanted to vote for him. Is that right? Hmm, no. Is that just? Probably not. Is it fair? Well, yes, I'd have to say it is. It's fair because those are the breaks. It's fair because no human system is perfect. And it's fair...
...Christopher and Daley, they had never been here before, didn't know the landscape, couldn't buy a map. They had never tried to win a presidential election that was hanging like a chad. And so they ran on instinct and adrenaline and grit, exhausted, their moods careering from absurd highs to grim lows each day, sometimes each hour. "It's peaks and valleys, peaks and valleys," says a top Gore operative. "We win every day. We lose every...