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...friend of mine unwittingly missed the deadline for handing in study cards and soon discovered that his slip had cost him $40. My first impression was that this was an absurd amount to pay for handing in a bubble sheet one day late, so I called the registrar to do a little investigating...
...Jersey, D.W. Griffith is directing a film titled The Call to Arms. Just at the moment the leading lady, Mary Pickford, faints from the unseasonable heat, a few blocks away Presbyterian minister Clarence Arthur Wilmot loses his belief in the Divinity: "the God of the Pentateuch was an absurd bully, barbarically thundering through a cosmos entirely misconceived. There is no such God, nor should there...
This virtual hooliganism may sound absurd. For people who rely on the Internet to communicate, though, it's a real and growing problem. Like more conventional groups, racists have discovered that the Net is a marvelous way to get their message out to a huge audience at low cost. Last week the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the world's largest Jewish human rights organization, decided that enough is enough. Citing "the rapidly expanding presence of organized hate groups on the Internet," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, sent letters to hundreds of Internet access providers, asking them to help...
...result, the current recipients of Medicare receive compensation far out of proportion to their initial contribution prior to retirement. Given this fact, the contention that somehow Medicare recipients deserve heavily subsidized health insurance due to their prior contributions to the Medicare fund is absurd...
Rather than trying to mirror the overexposed world of upper-middle-class urban life, Dr. Katz creates its own absurd version of it. The show revolves around Dr. Katz (his voice belongs to creator and writer Jonathan Katz), a divorced psychoanalyst saddled with a 23-year-old son who still lives at home. Unlike almost every other new sitcom on TV, Dr. Katz does not rely on fast and furious quips filled with trendy pop-cultural references. Instead it features surreal, laconic riffs, many of them between the doctor and his son Ben (who, after seeing himself mentioned...