The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
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 [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Republican state legislators complain constantly that majority Democrats ignore them and their ideas in fashioning legislative policy.
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
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...
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 22/04/2008
By Alistair Lyon Beirut - Empty seats are proliferating in Beirut's political theater of the absurd, symptoms of a deep malaise that has crippled Lebanese government institutions, damaged the economy and fuelled fears of renewed civil war.
Ephemeral Ruminations (Free subscription) | 22/04/2008
Some of the recent developments in the political sphere beg explanations that are either impossible to provide to sane individuals, or would provide grist for the mill of a theatre of the absurd. Take the Weerawansa / JVP development. Okay, so the guy was fired for playing on both sides as it were – being the [...]
Prospect.org (Free subscription) | 18/03/2008
Groups like Code Pink have turned political protest on the left into a joke. Effective political movements have to both engage their participants, and ensure that their actions are meaningful.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - All the world's a stage at some of Minnesota's bars.A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them "actors."The customers are playing right along, merrily puffing away — and...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
The Most Wanted List Commentary: International terrorism: Entering the theater of the absurd. By Noam Chomsky Mother Jones February 26, 2008 On February 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, was assassinated in Damascus. "The world is a better place without this man in it," State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack said: "one way or the other he was brought to justice."
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 27/02/2008
“..Terror” is a particularly good example of this…”..(’theatre of the absurd'..) “Terror” is something that, by (recent) definition, is committed by free-floating groups or movements against innocent civilians.. ..and is utterly reprehensible (unless the group turns out to be the CIA running car bombs into Baghdad or car and camel bombs into Afghanistan, in which case it's [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/02/2008
Under a full moon, a theatre of the absurd slowly unfolded in the cobbled square below Havana's magnificent old cathedral. In Fidel Castro's twilight hours, High Mass was about to begin. It would be led by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's top envoy, who ranks second only to the Pope.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
As opening acts go, this one belonged centre stage in the theatre of the absurd.
forward movement (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
In other political theater of the absurd, Maria Shriver gets existential about Obama:
Privacy Digest (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
The Airport Security Follies - Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Via Opinion - New York Times Blog: Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport security remains a theater of the absurd. The changes put in place following the September 11th catastrophe have been drastic, and largely of two kinds: those practical and effective, and those irrational, wasteful and pointless. The first variety have...
ThePublishingSpot (Free subscription) | 14/12/2007
"[Why not] make the elevator a moving improvisational performance space, turning your elevator ride together into more of a theater-of-the-absurd type of situation. It may go something like this: 'Man, have you ever installed a door on the ceiling? Whew, tough work.' 'No, I never have ... just cabinet doors in dirt.'" That's Jeffrey Yamaguchi, editor of the action-packed blog 52 Projects , inventing...
MSNBC.com: Newsweek National News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2007
Waiting for Godot—a.k.a. Mideast peace—in Annapolis
