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Ending hurts Holocaust tale
The family drama "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" depicts the Holocaust through the simplistic eyes of a child: all the brutality, all the absurdity, crystallized by the innocence of an 8-year-old.
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:54:48 GMT - (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Review: 'Striped Pajamas' needlessly overwhelms
The family drama "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" depicts the Holocaust through the simplistic eyes of a child: all the brutality, all the absurdity, crystallized by the innocence of an 8-year-old boy.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:11:47 GMT - (The State Journal-Register)

The Screening of America
Will all the new digital devices kill cinema?
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:09:34 GMT - (New York Times)

Moments That Mattered
Twelve writers, directors and bloggers describe the year?s most memorable clips, scenes, shows, videos and computer graphics.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:06:24 GMT - (New York Times)

Roald Dahl prize winner follows in the master's footsteps
A stinky old man who hates children, wildly inventive new vocabulary and wickedly amusing line drawings ? ring any bells? Andy Stanton has won the first Roald Dahl Funny Prize with Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, the fifth book in a darkly funny series that follows in the footsteps of the master of madcap humour commemorated by the award. It is only a couple of years since Stanton arrived on ...
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:05:14 GMT - (Guardian Unlimited)

LEADER ARTICLE: Mixed-up Hazards
Motivated morality is among the oldest health hazards known to man. The moral police have always subpoenaed public health to propagate their self-righteous causes. The 'stigma' they spread as a result is the biggest impediment to the solution.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:58:06 GMT - (The Times of India)

Video of the Day: Did "SNL" swing and miss?
The jury is out on this Paul Rudd sketch from "Saturday Night Live." Two of our trusted friends thought it was funny in its absurdity. Two others gave it the thumbs down. What's your call?
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:17:24 GMT - (OnMilwaukee.com)

Dance review: 'Execution of Precious Memories'
To the public, Blixa Bargeld might most easily be identified as the former guitarist for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. But to serious fans of experimental music, Bargeld is a cult hero: founder of the group Einstürzende Neubauten, power-tool-wielding savant...
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:39:23 GMT - (San Francisco Chronicle)

Lakers' Jackson, Suns' O'Neal all smiles again
PHOENIX - The door to the Phoenix Suns' practice court swung open and the Big Sweaty emerged Thursday night, walking across the hallway, embracing his former coach and whispering something sweet in his ear.
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:04:18 GMT - (Los Angeles Daily News)

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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:26:41 GMT - (Modesto Bee)

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Judean People's Front
Since Prof. Crispy was throwing some love my way, I'm going to toss a little back ... at any given second. Perhaps they're just exquisitely sensitive to absurdity. If you were a 6-year-old
Posted on 2008-11-21 20:30:21 GMT

blog: Who Is IOZ?This Annoys Me
According to a Michelle Malkin piece today, eHarmony has wimped out and agreed to change its business model to include homosexuals because of a ... in to this kind of unconstitutional coercion. The absurdity of this lawsuit is beyond bounds
Posted on 2008-11-21 19:41:34 GMT

blog: Xs and OsWhich Came First, the Turkey or the Egg?
This question is impossible to answer'“from the evolutionary worldview ... asked this question? Surely it was a Biblical Creationist illustrating the absurdity of evolution
Posted on 2008-11-21 19:41:22 GMT

blog: Woodside Bible Church If a Tree Falls in the Woods and Everyone is Watching, Will Anyone Clean Up the Mess?
[ FRYE0E2FB7FC41M.MEDIUM.jpg]So, there's this online reality TV deal called Lifecaster, right? ... that's what the online world has become. Voyeuristic to the point of absurdity.
Posted on 2008-11-21 19:39:23 GMT

blog: QuizLaw: Simple Answers to Complex Legal Questions In all possible worlds? I doubt it.
Our decadent odour is only that of some other forgotten person's disease. The following was written nearly ten years ago. Since then, the figures have broadened in their difference. Today there are more or less 500,000 people infected with AIDS in Europe. With the implementation of tritherapy, mortality rates are decreasing rapidly
Posted on 2008-11-21 19:28:11 GMT

blog: QuodlibetHave you thrown out Atlas Shrugged yet?
Permalink Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) November 20, 2008 The steady erosion of freedom Nick Gillespie's excellent new video for Reason.tv examines how in the course of a decade smoking bans went from Californian absurdity to national trend: In related news, Michael Kinsley raises the question of whether Barack Obama has truly
Posted on 2008-11-21 18:46:31 GMT

blog: Jacob Grier: Coffee, Cocktails, Commentary, and ConjuringFrom the Free & Easy Archive
The August, 2007 issue of Free & Easy includes one of my all time favorite articles from the Japanese publication, a buyers guide for dogs. I can see someone like New York Magazine doing this sort of feature (actually my pal Rosecrans wrote a much more logical piece on the topic in 2007), but not with the endearing absurdity that only
Posted on 2008-11-21 18:42:27 GMT

blog: A Continuous Lean.Value Stock Investing - The November Syndrome On Drugs
By Steve Selengut http://www.sancoservices.com/ http://www.kiawahgolfinvestmentseminars.com Professional Investment Management from 1979 Author of: 'œThe Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book that Wall Street Does Not Want YOU to Read', and 'œA Millionaire's Secret Investment Strategy' '”- Every fall,
Posted on 2008-11-21 18:31:48 GMT

blog: The Joel Gaines ShowWhy I Just Invested in Goodmail
How many letters have you snail mailed lately? I think I send about 10,000 emails for every letter I write ... absurdity is that you'd have to be nuts to open an email from Bank of America, since most emails
Posted on 2008-11-21 18:21:00 GMT

blog: Who Has Time For This?Happy Thanksgiving From Sarah Palin
I'm not sure what's more hilarious . . . her words or the fact that they're chopping off the head of turkeys in the background and them violently thrashing around. If the quality of this video wasn't so clear, you could almost swear it was an SNL sketch because of the sheer absurdity of it. This is too classic. Too classic.
Posted on 2008-11-21 17:55:28 GMT

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