Word: absurdness
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...some of the capital gains to buy a car or pay for a vacation. Of course, this violated the first law of economics - that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The assumption that house prices could continue to go up at a rapid pace looked particularly absurd in an economy in which most Americans were seeing their real incomes declining...
...smoker’s own good. Even if smoking has a detrimental effect on one’s life, it can hardly be as harmful as a jail sentence, and the notion that we are helping smokers by arresting them and sending them to prison is patently absurd. The passage of Ballot Question 2 will do much to make state laws more reasonable, but it does not go nearly far enough. While preserving some criminal penalties for possession and maintaining laws against growing and selling the drug may help the ballot measure pass, these laws are fundamentally foolish. Marijuana, which...
...student tromps back to his or her bed, desk and chair, the last thing many of us want is the sound of a near-total stranger taking up space. No matter the room number, from the River to the Quad, everyone seems to share a wall with the most absurd of characters. They scream at inhumanly high pitches, they cackle and guffaw, they blast ’90s pop into the wee hours (especially during Reading Period). Some of us respond in kind—by yelling for quiet, throwing sneakers at the wall, or just learning to grit...
Bartlet gamely keeps up, although his own absurd attempts at Paris-isms ("Peace All!") abetted by a cameo from Fake First Son Charlie Harper are horrific. Still, the scariest thing about the whole video might be that Paris' policy recommendations (essentially, declare victory and get the hell out of Iraq; force banks to renegotiate interest rates for homeowners underwater on their loans) actually sound halfway reasonable. But maybe that's just compared to her makeup...
...never quite sure what to think of this absurd and meaningless world—until I met the “Reckoner.” I’m not exactly sure who he is, but Thom Yorke of Radiohead begs to be taken away with him. And I don’t know about you, but I’m usually convinced by whatever Thom says. But while “Reckoner” may pan out to be another Radiohead classic, the accompanying video leaves something to be desired. The melancholic video begins in black and white with...