Word: pointlessness
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...hours of Monday morning, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) released a statement condemning the move, which it decried as part of “a narrow and politically charged agenda.” Left-leaning campus media, too, raised objections to the legislation, calling it a “pointless political manifesto.” The UC makes strange bedfellows, indeed.What has transpired this week has not been debate about workers’ wages themselves, nor should it have been. Rather, we’ve been confronted with an important question about the purpose and function...
...advantage as a student government lies in the realm of petitioning the administration on behalf of students and providing student services. It should confine itself to those areas where it has a clear role and can make a difference, instead of squandering its power and time by dabbling in pointless political manifestos...
...Paradox of Retrograde Progress. Television is a Faustian bargain (a dazzling technology that induces dullness and even moronism), and the Internet has the same ominous tendencies. It is not a bad idea to mistrust the omnivorous vulgarity of innovation, even its (paradoxical) death instinct. Novelty, in its pointless ingenuity, keeps slaying itself...
...popular eating strip will have security cameras and guards checking cars and their occupants. But with large numbers of young Indonesians ready to sacrifice their lives for Islam, says Zachary Abuza, who has authored several books on Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia, such measures may prove pointless: "When you are willing to die with a bomb that will fit in a backpack, targets like the Jimbaran restaurants are basically undefendable...
...remain more ambivalent. It's an open question whether this is a sign of the nation's lingering lack of confidence after a long and painful hit to its status as a global economic power, or a mature and rational reluctance to get dragged into a wasteful and ultimately pointless race. It may wound Japanese national pride that China has pulled ahead in such a technologically complex field, but in Japan, many question whether the scientific and economic payoff of an expanded space program justifies either the risks or the expense. According to Eiichiro Sekigawa, Japan correspondent of Aviation Week...