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George W. Bush went ahead that night with a party at the governor's mansion for his administrative staff and his security detail. But he had watched the Florida ruling on television, found it absurd and wanted to get away. He woke up early Saturday, called communications director Karen Hughes around 6:30 and asked, "Have we won yet?" Aides briefed him on the state of play, and he shot off some e-mails before heading out. "I'll be at the ranch," he said to his aides. "Let me know what happens." Then he drove to Crawford, where...
Sometimes it is a theater of the absurd...
...laboratory, consumers in Europe and, to an increasing extent, the U.S., are jittery about "unnatural" produce. Consumers' fears are irrational because there have been no scientific studies linking commercially available genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to disease. And despite the benefits to both farmers and consumers, some opponents continue leveling absurd charges against GMOs and holding them to impossible standards. In his Dec. 4 column "Biotechnology: Bad Technology" Rohan R. Gulrajani argued that GMOs are wrong because "technologies whose side effects cannot be completely controlled fail to meet all the purposes for which they were created and therefore are insufficient." This...
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...