In a book that features a diverting fact or figure on almost every page (Schlosser is nothing if not a diligent sifter of statistics), the title essay harvests a rich crop of legal absurdities regarding the trade in marijuana.
In general, these authors were inspired by Schopenhauer's sense of the world's absurdity, either regarded in a more nihilistic and gloomy manner, or regarded in a more lighthearted, absurdist and comic manner.
He begins a monologue regarding the absurdity of so many random mishaps coming together, including the main "lookout" person's lost binoculars.
Notable by their absence are teams from rationalist societies, free thinkers' clubs and atheists' associations - the sort of people who not only scoff at religion's intellectual absurdity but also regard it as a positive force for evil.
These tests generally depend on the presence or lack of interpretations and on judgments regarding the ridiculousness of interpretation (the absurdity of the meaning is known as zeugma though it should probably be known as syllepsis).
Absurdity, self-regard, hypocrisy, chumminess between writer and subject -- it's all there.
Not more than a week after my rant about the absurdities that poured from the mouth of Pat Robertson regarding Haiti's earthquake, I have the bittersweet experience of reading this headline: "Iranian Cleric: Promiscuous Women Cause Earthquakes".
Regarding the statutory arguments, there is another level of absurdity in this case.
So, Health Canada has now lost two court cases, which have chipped away at the absurdities of the MMPR, but meanwhile they continue to act like political buffoons regarding medical weed in the media.
I started My First Grow to creatively highlight this absurdity; it was my way of contributing to the recent UK legalisation discussions that have been happening regarding cannabis.
I started My First Grow to creatively highlight this absurdity; it was my way of contributing to the recent UK legalization discussions that have been happening regarding cannabis.
