Word: absurdities
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...scholars and restorers who have visited the scaffolding seem to agree that the extreme care with which the work proceeds, the constant testing, the minute adjustment of the strength of the solution to the chemical and stratigraphic analysis of each portion of the fresco, is very far from the absurd impression of the restorers that the antis give in their more rhetorical moments, almost as if they were a gang of purblind pedants swiping at the ceiling with mops and Easy...
...statement of his views." When contacted by a reporter, Jackson's former secretary denied that her boss ever supported Plessy; later, Jackson scholar Dennis Hutchinson of the University of Chicago told the New York Times that the Justice never asked his clerks to summarize his views. "An absurd explanation," Hutchinson said. In 2001, after his own political leanings had tacked left, former Nixon aide Dean ended his book on Rehnquist with two words: "Rehnquist lied." Although some Senators reached the same conclusion in 1971, the Senate had rejected two other Nixon Supreme Court nominees in the past two years...
...gave it up. Not baseball. Fandom. I watched Baseball Tonight, read the sports section, of course. But no rooting. Didn't care about anybody. Fandom never made sense to me in the first place. The whole idea is absurd. It's one thing to admire sport and watch it for its beauty and elegance. That makes sense. But to care and cheer and stomp for other grown men to win? That's bizarre. These brutes throw chairs at fans. They take steroids and pretend it mysteriously got into their cereal. They curse and spit and scratch their groins and then...
...That may be an overreaction. Such claims "are quite patently absurd," complains William Lakin, director general of Euratex, which represents E.U. textile producers, because there's plenty of other merchandise made in the E.U. and elsewhere available. Lakin says that any fixes to the original deal should be minimal. Still, the prevailing wind has changed. Mandelson, now under pressure from more free trade-minded governments including Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, last week announced that there was "a serious glitch" in his June deal and dispatched a team of officials to Beijing to try to renegotiate part...
...absurd that New York Times reporter Judith Miller was put in jail for refusing to reveal her confidential sources, while Rove remains in a job paid for by U.S. taxpayers. It's time for Bush to demonstrate true character and do as he promised, without parsing the relative legality of Rove's actions, which were at the very least arrogant and unethical. That sort of behavior should not be tolerated by either the President or the American people. We expect better from our public servants, elected or otherwise. Lucia Foley Cinnaminson, New Jersey...