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Just in time for the return of those nasty midterm grades, FM gives you “Balderdash with the Professors”. This fun game is designed to remind you that even though they may be able to deem your paper “undirected, unsupported and unresearched”, the title of Harvard Professor does not confer upon its holder omniscience. So next time you’re stumped on question number five of the world’s hardest problem set, remember that the creator of this torturous assignment probably doesn’t know the definition...
...Chili stays cool. Always. The hero of Get Shorty, once a loan shark, now a film producer, here gets involved in the pop-music biz, a field of endeavor that lacks the dignity of finance but is rich in crooks, babes and crooked babes. The balderdash that follows is nonsense of the highest quality. It proves both to scolds who think that funk, grunge and rap and the rest are rhythmic vomiting, and to those who actually like the stuff, that music today is a racket...
Officially, I've earned them by paying Social Security taxes for 44-plus years. Balderdash. Those taxes wouldn't defray my pension for more than a few years--and they've already been used to pay the pensions of those who retired years and years ago. My pension, in fact, will be paid by people still...
...impact is lost when you include a chart of a telephone poll that purports to tell readers what America thinks. This is surveyspeak, polltalk at its most ridiculous. If there are 250 million people in the U.S., your polltakers reached 0.000407% of the population. To permit such balderdash when dealing with heaven and hell, you risk a lot. JOHN VAN DOORN New York City...
...hours may have current and former Clinton Administration officials fidgeting behind their desks. The Washington Times reports thatIndependent Counsel Kenneth Starris focusing on Clinton aides Bruce Lindsey and Betsey Wright in a probe of the Whitewater land deal's finances. (Wright called the Times story "poisonous poppycock and unfounded balderdash.")TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratansays both were involved in one of Starr's longtime targets -- the financing of Clinton's 1984 and 1990 gubernatorial campaigns. Meanwhile, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee have sent a letter to Starr requesting a probe of testimony by Clinton advisersGeorge Stephanopoulosand Harold Ickes, saying...