Readers: New Yorker cover satirizes the 'absurd'
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY -9 hours ago
The picture does not satirize the Obamas themselves, but satirizes the sad truth that many Americans, such as the writer, believe the absurd rumors …

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July 22: Absurd Training Sessions
Tyler Morning Telegraph, TX -6 hours ago
This is the most absurd thing I have ever heard. If these young Army medical doctors need emergency lifesaving training, send them to the nearest trauma …

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Times Online

Sibling incest: what you think
Times Online, UK -1 hour ago
This story highlights the absurd and arbitrary moralising taboos that our society likes to construct around sexual relations. Emotions between siblings are …

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Absurd claims for Ulster-Scots tongue
Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom -7 hours ago
As someone who has made Scots his study, Dr Adamson will know that alleging uniformity with ‘several of the dialects of mainland Scots’ is an absurdity, …

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guardian.co.uk

Scenes from cancer's theatre of the absurd
guardian.co.uk, UK -22 hours ago
Taken together, these two memoirs tell us very little about cancer beyond the fact that it's absurd. Joking, as far as you can, may be one of the most …

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Satire takes a beating when truth is so ridiculous
Detroit Free Press, United States -Jul 19, 2008
So, as absurd, as over the top, as utterly outlandish as the New Yorker image strikes the more sophisticated among us, there is a large fringe out there for …
All politicians are fair game for satiristsSan Francisco Chronicle
Drawing the line on satireToronto Star
Satire, like beauty, is in beholder's eyeKurdish Globe
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ABC News

Ideas & Trends We’re Not Laughing at You, or With You
New York Times, United States -19 hours ago
An Obama-inhabited Oval Office with a portrait of bin Laden hanging over an American flag burning in the fireplace is patently absurd. …
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MSM Obama Cartoon Hand Wringing Contrasts Sharply With Rickles …NewsBusters
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Washington Post

America's Greatest Source Of Renewable Energy: Whine Power?
Huffington Post, NY -19 hours ago
Lou Dobbs has got his presumably made-in-the-USA knickers in a twist over Al Gore's "truly absurd proposal" for Americans to ditch the fossil fuels and …
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I Was a Victim of the Government's Absurd and Over-Hyped War on Terror
OpEdNews, PA -6 hours ago
by Dave Lindorff Page 1 of 1 page(s) By Dave Lindorff Army knife. By standing it in my carry-on bag so that it would be to have my carry-on luggage hand …

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Pythonian 'Messiah' Delights in the Absurd
Washington Post, United States -17 hours ago
"It's a great city for Python kind of comedy, " Idle said of Washington. "The absurdity is ever present . . . and laughter is a great escape from that."

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