Thursday's headline in the Times, "Hawking: God did not create the Universe", reached new depths of absurdity.
These sink to unimaginable depths of absurdity, but end up in serious compromises to people's dignity.
Welcome to the new depths of absurdity courtesy of the N.B.A.'s current three-ring circus of free agency, led by LeBron James.
The Byzantine shambles that is the governing body of the world's most popular sport plumbed new depths of absurdity yesterday.
Each message is escalated into greater heights — or depths — of absurdity, gleefully depicted in Slack's retro Tibor Gergely-style illustrations.
But the tens of thousands from Australia, Brazil and Britain who turn up at the park gate today will be sent on their way while American politics plumbs the depths of absurdity.
Things had just about reached the depths of absurdity when a store owner in Knoxville finally injected some perspective, urging angry Tennessee fans to return Kiffin T-shirts so they could be sent with relief supplies to earthquake-stricken Haiti.
This craze also reached the depths of absurdity when the Del Mar City Council changed the name of manholes to sewer access structures, evidently with the idea of making it easier for women to work in sewers.
The situation is spiraling as we speak into new depths of absurdity, and many of the people who've made things this bad are busy brainstorming ways to make it worse.
Littleton, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Oak Creek, Newtown: the names ring like a litany of preventable massacres — blots of blood on the map of a country more and more foreign to others in the depth and absurdity of its tragedy.
How the various parts of the film connect is not obvious, but they all stem from a mind that knows how inextricably entwined are real life and fantasy, from the depths of depravity to the heights of absurdity.
