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Absurd TV moderator: Jake Tapper on State of the Union in hiked-up chair

October 24th, 2021

Stature is measured by intellect and character, not by how high a TV talk-show host can hike his chair up to tower over his guest.
Jake Tapper should review the video of his State of the Union program today, Sunday, October 24, 2021, to see how absolutely ridiculous he looks with his chair hiked up so far that the edge of the table is below his navel, and his elbows are more than six inches above it. Today he towered over Nancy Pelosi, who is of average height.

This is beyond pathetic. It is absolutely absurd.

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America has become a Country of the Absurd

June 6th, 2021

In the United States, perhaps 50-70 million voters, including a vast majority of Republican voters and almost all Republican legislators and elected officials, are living in a fictional parallel universe ruled by Donald Trump.
Trump and his sycophantic supporters are earnestly embarked on a mission to enact state laws that will suppress the Democratic vote, particularly […]

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Democracy and rule of law, or cancel culture: We must choose

March 15th, 2021

The current massive pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo illustrates the dire situation in which our culture and our country find themselves.
We have a Constitution and state constitutions and laws that establish how public officials should be selected, and removed. Under the U.S. and state constitutions, they are to be selected by free elections, for a […]

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Race as a critical qualification for translation of Amanda Gorman Inauguration poem

March 11th, 2021

Race is not a scientific concept. But as black activists move from the goal of “equal opportunity” to the goal of “equal results”, “race” is increasingly taken into consideration in the most unexpected of places. Here, a highly qualified translator from English to Catalán (a regional language spoken in Spain), has been hired and then […]

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Trump appoints elephant to Supreme Court

September 22nd, 2020

During the reign of Roman Emperor Caligula (37-41 A.D.), according to myth and legend, the Emperor appointed his favorite horse, Incitatus, to be Consul and preside over the Senate. The Senate, at the time, was among other things a kind of a Supreme Court that could review criminal and other court decisions. Historians, however, cast […]

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Exponential Absurdity in the Covid-19 World

May 10th, 2020

The need for humor in the face of the exponentially Absurd

Who would have thought that Absurdity could increase exponentially in a world already marked by Absurdity?

But it has.

We live in the Exponentially Absurd World of Covid-19 now.
Above all, we mustn’t lose our sense of humor. The Moderator of the Absurd urgently requests submissions of examples, […]

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Sexual harrassment hysteria and mob justice: Garrison Keillor and Al Franken denied due process

December 7th, 2017

Amid the current hysteria over allegations of sexual abuse of women by men, Garrison Keillor, the long-time host of Prairie Home Companion and until this week of The Writer’s Almanac, had the temerity to write the following in regard to allegations against Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota):
The greatest absurdity of our time is You Know Whom, […]

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ESPN announcer removed from UVA football game because of name

August 23rd, 2017

ESPN announcer removed from University of Virginia football game because of name
See Matthew Haagaug, “ESPN Pulls Announcer Robert Lee From Virginia Game Because of His Name,” New York Times, August 23, 2017.
ESPN has removed an announcer from its broadcast of the University of Virginia’s first football game next month because he has the same name […]

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Russia sets up monitoring service to denounce “fake news”

February 25th, 2017

The Absurd can occur anywhere, even in politics and foreign affairs. A striking example of the Absurd, of the kind that knocks you off your chair laughing, if not crying, has been provided recently by Russia, which has set up a website to denounce ” fake news” appearing in Western publications.
Russia is probably the greatest […]

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Police Reportedly Kill Man to Prevent His Suicide

August 30th, 2010

“Our goal was to try to get in there and provide assistance to what we believed was a life-endangering situation,” Lopez said. “He was, from what we gathered, attempting suicide.”
San Jose police have apparently stopped a man from committing suicide by killing him.
The San Jose Mercury News reported as follows:
San Jose police shot and killed […]

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