But at least the absurd debate gives writers like myself plenty to say about what would otherwise be a fairly unassuming prize winner.
But I'm not sure that it isn't a workable option, or at least no more absurd than anything else.
Proposals to control high-powered weaponry — or at least ban the absurd 100-round clip used in the assault — quickly fell by the wayside as politicians refused, once again, to take firm control of gun sales.
It means, at least, that the absurd front-loading of the primary season did not do what we feared: deprive the majority of Democratic voters of the chance to be heard.
Like the limericks, Vine videos have an extremely restricted form (six seconds, an infinite loop) and a very specific sensibility that's informed by the restrictions (the joke – and it's usually a joke – has to play out in seconds and improve or at least become transcendently absurd through repetition).
The ministry of defence, which gobbles up money in prodigious amounts, not least on the absurd conflict in Afghanistan, has three ongoing capital-hungry projects: the Typhoon strike aircraft for the RAF, two replacement aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, and the renewal of the Trident nuclear-armed submarine flotilla.
This is absurd, at least in this administration.
At least, that premise seemed absurd until, in my 20s, I started having psychoanalysis.
It is an accusation that Mr. Qadi says he finds absurd, not least because the foundation shut down five years ago.
I had to wonder: Were my neuroses holding me back (or, at least, sending me on absurd and unnecessary intermodal journeys)?
