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...summer of 1974, I cut my shoulder-length hair short, for no reason except that long hair suddenly seemed symbolically pointless, and by junior year, almost no one I knew was taking a lot of drugs...
...Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this January, Compaq gave each delegate a free iPaq pocket computer. I sat with a friend and marveled at the gizmo. Then we sent each other e-mails. Hey! Of course, we were sitting side by side (at an indescribably dull panel on Asian economies). Pointless communication, yes, but isn't that what we do nowadays? Think how commonly we send e-mails to colleagues at work who might be as near as the end of our cubicle. Is technology enhancing our ability to interact, or blocking...
...wondered what the sex meant, anyway. Frantic, pointless activity. The rest of us sometimes feel that way about the news. We have indulged too long in promiscuities of information. They have made us tired. Dr. Seuss once wrote something called "The Sleep Book." It starts: "The news just came in from the Castle of Keck/ that a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck/ is snoring so loud you can look down his neck./ This may not seem very important, I know,/ but it is, so I'm bothering telling you so." There ensued pages and pages...
...does it take an eco-warrior to realize that Bush’s new environmental policies have been nothing short of reprehensible. From breaking campaign promises on reducing carbon dioxide emissions to authorizing pointless oil exploration in protected areas of Alaska and allowing carcinogenic levels of arsenic to remain in drinking water, the past 100 days have brought a litany of environmental disasters. Bush’s transparent reliance upon big business has forced him to jeopardize the U.S. environment in order to repay their support for his campaign...
...defeat seems wildly out of proportion to the actual significance of the game. After all, as countless people (most of them female) have pointed out, it’s really rather silly, isn’t it? All that running around with nerf guns and such, and all that pointless paranoia—shouldn’t I be happy to be done with...