Word: logical
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Everything from the gothic scenery to the story’s vaudevillian tone seeps through Guillermo Navarro’s vibrant photography and Del Toro’s script, as full of thrills as it is of an anti-formulaic, self-aware logic. Ron Perlman, of TV’s Beauty and the Beast fame, has the chops (and the eyebrows and the jawbones) to deliver Hellboy’s throwaway one-liners and punches with the appropriate devil-may-care élan: he’s Dirty Harry with a penchant for beer and pancakes, a superhero-everyman...
...exploits of far-left celebrities are usually good for a few harmless laughs; in fact, many celebrity entertainers are more entertaining when they get caught up in political analysis beyond their capacity for logic. Janeane Garofalo’s wonderfully ill-informed and childish rants about Iraq were vastly more humorous than any of her recent acting work, and Michael Moore’s battle with the word “fictitious” at the Oscar’s was similarly much more interesting than either Fahrenheit 9/11 or Bowling for Columbine...
Partially as a result of the first factor, and partially as a consequence of the rise of constructivist thought in pedagogy, the educational system fails to teach students about the march of human knowledge. Students are not given adequate background in basic logic and classical thought, and are thus not able to assess modern-day issues in their appropriate context. Their lack of training in logic leads to obvious complications. This also creates the problem that students are unable to engage when they are taken away from familiar ground...
Perhaps most telling, my dorm mates preferred to watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s commentary on the presidential debates above any news sources. Of course, in a culture that prioritizes snippy phrases over cogent logic, the ultimate broadcaster is Jon Stewart. I completely agree that when Stewart takes news clips and unmercifully ridicules important public figures, it’s very funny. But that’s all that it is, and I’m not sure that my fellow students always realize it. In fact, Jon Stewart was recently on CNN?...
...more than well-versed in treating cases of alcohol poisoning, but the only problem is getting students treated in the first place. Logic would seem to dictate that turning oneself over to employees of the University after losing 12 consecutive games of beer pong must result in disciplinary action. As such, many freshmen interviewed for this story said that, prior to treatment, they would not have gone to UHS for alcohol-related maladies except, perhaps, as a very last resort...