Word: absurdities
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...many have noted, if money does buy victory, Americans are selling their votes on the cheap. The total spending on the next presidential election is expected to exceed a billion dollars, but, in comparison, Americans will spend $10 billion on pornography next year. These figures either reflect the absurd ease of buying political success, or (more likely) the minimal impact of donations on election results...
...From the second-grader who realizes that the Silent Game “isn’t actually fun” to an instant-messaging teenage girl whose “innards R swarming w/2morous growths,” Rich’s young characters expose absurdity with the regrettable wisdom of adulthood.“Ant Farm” is mostly gloomy and almost always hilarious in its take on the absurd, whether that’s education, religion, or war. In 57 sketches that can be read in under a minute each, Rich finds humor amid the darkest...
...tours Verdun, Guernica, Auschwitz, Stalingrad, Dresden, Chernobyl, Sarajevo. With an itinerary like that, there are predictably few joyful moments to be had. The book is filled instead with a sort of dreadful comedy that drove Samuel Beckett and others to see Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors (the war to end all wars!), and the heartbreaking irony of victims unaware (one letter from a Jewish transport car to Poland: "We've stopped at Auschwitz, we have...
...view the most important—features of the Task Force’s report was allowing well-qualified students to break out of the straightjacket imposed by the Core by substituting departmental classes for Core requirements. In place of the Core’s often absurd criteria for classes—for instance, it requires a final exam—the Task Force recommended a more flexible set of guidelines for vetting general education courses. The draft legislation, written by a three-member committee of professors, proposes the creation of a Standing Committee on General Education, which will oversee...
...think teens' forming their own culture is healthy. I don't think all their role models are absurd (c'mon, how hot is Justin Timberlake?). I am not sure the nuclear family is a necessary condition for health. I happen to think the "media industry" is not a bad thing (we are both part of it). I think the failure of the war on drugs is a good thing...