Word: absurdities
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...would-be bombers by confiscating their toothpaste—it took months of old-fashioned gumshoe detective work—the day heralded a new set of irrational security restrictions. Our shoeless security circus, where minimally qualified federal screeners leer at passengers and seize fruit blenders, only grows more absurd...
...18th Century Novel,” is not. Bizarrely, the Core continues to insist that its presentation of various “approaches to learning” justifies its distinctness from the rest of the curriculum. Perhaps students could be expected to put up with this absurd pretense while the Core was the only game in town. But now that all relevant parties have recognized the failures of the Core, and with a new system right around the corner, it’s time for the administration to open the floodgates. Generally speaking, all potentially cross-listed departmental courses must...
...Ranch training camp, Owens admitted he was a bit vague about details of what happened Tuesday night at his downtown Dallas loft, but cut off talk about his mental state. "There was no suicide attempt," he said, a thin smile showing. "The rumor of me taking 35 pills is absurd...
...face, of course, the notion of a war with Iran seems absurd. By any rational measure, the last thing the U.S. can afford is another war. Two unfinished wars--one on Iran's eastern border, the other on its western flank--are daily depleting America's treasury and overworked armed forces. Most of Washington's allies in those adventures have made it clear they will not join another gamble overseas. What's more, the Bush team, led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has done more diplomatic spadework on Iran than on any other project in its 51/2 years...
...suggests that human beings are inclined to do many things that are morally problematic. Many evolutionary biologists believe that the evolution of men incline them toward the reproductive strategy of impregnating numerous women and committing only minimally (or not at all) to each of them. Yet it would be absurd to conclude from this fact that men are morally justified in exploiting and abandoning women! Similarly, Darwinism might help us to understand why some women seek out abortions, but it does not automatically follow that those abortion are good moral choices. Morality can be informed by science, but it cannot...