Another few weeks of media dominated by right wing activists making absurd claims about a calm, qualified and media savvy Obama nominee would have weakened the Republican Party going into an election season which promises to be very competitive.
Petrushevskaya directs the mayhem with a ringleader's calm mastery of the absurd.
At first glance it may seem absurd that Wayne Rooney is considered a calming influence as Manchester United enter the critical phase of their title defence.
That he should be put in a position to have to calm down the US is absurd.
Not because, in a novel about the Holocaust, the author has gambled his calm for a trip into the absurd and the insane.
And in the foreground, just barely, the deceptively sweet singing voice of Satomi Matsuzaki, bringing an uneasy calm to lyrics that court the absurd.
And when people talk about its calm, harmony or balance, little do they know what a nerve-racking and absurd journey we had to go on to get there.
I have come to honour that promise," said Muhammad Riaz Rahman, a shopkeeper from Multan, tugging a calm-looking billy, daubed with pink dye, through the crowd.To orthodox Sufis, all this is absurd.
The White House moved to calm simmering tensions with North Korea Monday, calling Pyongyang's claim that Donald Trump had declared war via Twitter "absurd".
