Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Part Pentecostal tent revival, part theater of the absurd, part circus sideshow Nashville's Legendary Shack*Shakers are a greasy, southern-fried combo of gonzo blues, punk, gospel, and rockabilly, led by stone-cold wild man Colonel J.D. Wilkes. One of the most animated performers you'll ever s...
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
A vintage game, its rhapsodic shifts of rhythm played out in the gloaming of an immaculate summer evening. But the cathedral of British tennis can sometimes seem a theatre of the absurd as well.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
A vintage game, its rhapsodic shifts of rhythm played out in the gloaming of an immaculate summer evening. But the cathedral of British tennis can sometimes seem a theatre of the absurd as well. The wait for a Briton who can win this tournament has become very like the wait for Godot, an attempt to give futility a purpose of its own. Is Andrew Murray the messiah? After this tumultuous match, at least...
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
As James Gattuso noted last week, the XM-Sirius merger review has now entered the realm of the theater of the absurd. It’s not just that the FCC has lapped its 180-day merger review shot clock two-and-half times already (we’re over 450 days into the proposed merger, after all), but it’s the fact that there seems [...]
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
I agree with Chantal Hebert - federal politics these days is for the birds.
Roger L. Simon (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... or the "New Politics" as the Theater of the Absurd. And speaking of theater.......
historymike (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
The presence of a group of fluttering balloons near the pictured accident scene on Laskey Road today heightened my sense that I was witnessing a scene from the theater of the absurd . While an auto accident is never an event that could be described as "fun," there is something about the surreality of being in or near an accident scene that makes people behave strangely. Including geeks like me taking...
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
In a Vital Signs post last week ( "Obama's Theater of the Absurd" ), I linked readers to a NRO column by Sabrina Leigh Schaeffer which presented some alarming material about Barack Obama's many anti-Israel friends and advisors. Schaeffer mentioned one of the worst was a fellow Obama has described as one of his three spiritual mentors, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a renegade Catholic priest at South Side...
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Barack Obama has received months of fawning press coverage, coverage that has tried valiantly to hide from an increasingly dumbed-down populace just how ultra-liberal are the Senator's positions on abortion, on a timid foreign policy, on homosexuality, on ethics, and many more important issues. How long can that protective screen remain in place? Let's do a quick rundown on a few cracks in the dike....
Fore Left! (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
This story made brief news on the cable screamers last night and on blogs as well, such as PYY. Labeling it "theater of the absurd", National Review writer Niles Gardiner outlined the trip:This week sees the arrival on U.S. soil of Doudou Diene, the U.N. special rapporteur charged with investigating “racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” in America. Diene, a
The Elephant Bar (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
US military: soldier shot at Quran for practice KIM GAMEL Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD — An American soldier used a Quran, the Islamic holy book, for target practice in a predominantly Sunni area west of Baghdad, prompting an apology from the U.S. military, a spokesman said Sunday. Separately, mortar shells slammed into a residential area north of the Iraqi capital, killing at least four people...
NewsWatch: White House (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
(ap) Locals to news media: Quit exploiting the wedding! Trying to extract even the most mundane details of this wedding from the White House has quickly devolved into Crawford Theater of the Absurd. Gordon Johndroe, the pride of Cowtown,...
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Welcome to the theatre of the absurd: Lewis Hamilton, cast as Apollo, flies' on to stage and ends the war fought when Menelaus, king of Sparta, lost his stunning wife Helen to that bounder, Paris of Troy
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Republican state legislators complain constantly that majority Democrats ignore them and their ideas in fashioning legislative policy.
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
abe selig THE JERUSALEM POST Human Rights Watch has systematically condemned Israel for "collective punishment" in the Gaza Strip, undermining its stated agenda of promoting human rights universally, according to a report released this week by the Jerusalem-based watchdog NGO Monitor. The report, which provides a detailed analysis of HRW's publications and statements in 2007, compares the group's coverage...
