It is depressing to look at a picture of Michelle Obama wearing a head scarf on a visit to a mosque in Jakarta and wonder, first, whether the image is going to be put to some ludicrous, birther use.
You don't usually see his more mild-mannered replacement, Tim Cook, deploying the kind of extended public trashtalking that Jobs indulged, raging out at this or that rival tech as ludicrous, impossible to use and horribly designed.
Even Thomas Beddoes, who owned the first lab in which nitrous oxide was synthesized, prefaced his own sensory descriptions with the following parenthetical: "Why should one fear to use ludicrous terms when they are expressive?" Indeed, Oh Excellent Air Bag's curators believe that their findings comprise some of the earliest-known psychedelic literature.
The flavours and textures, particularly when using ludicrous pulses such as broad beans and chickpeas, invariably end up closer to an Italian bean stew.
By publishing the whole grisly and ludicrous legal edifice used by the previous administration to justify torture Obama has struck a blow for civilisation, responsibility and efficiency.
Many of Friedman's works take an inordinate amount of painstaking work, often using ludicrous materials: tooth-picks, drinking-straw wrappers, pillow-stuffing, pubic hair, soap.
Travelling sales reps would spend around half an hour each evening with their laptop plugged into a cable they had stolen from the hotel fax machine to avoid paying the ludicrous charges for using the phone in their hotel room.
A second, slightly more ludicrous argument Scheer used is the idea that a large solar thermal grid in Africa is a likely nuclear target, putting energy supplies at risk.
The bit about "foreign bureaucrats" controlling our energy use is ludicrous.
The idea that banning ketamine will stop recreational use is ludicrous, given that similar bans on heroin and cocaine have not impacted misuse.
