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Imus is hailed as the champion "ringmaster" of the new news: The accompanying profile --like every profile of Imus--applauds his sense of the absurd and his ability to bully the famous into speaking truthfully but worries about his crudeness and his temper.
The merits of that issue aside, this was an absurd proposal in the context of debate about a balanced-budget amendment.
To argue, as Foer does--that the notion that the British government bears a substantial measure of responsibility for the humanitarian crisis of the famine is merely an Irish "folk tradition"--is as absurd as arguing that the blight itself was introduced deliberately in a genocidal conspiracy.
In defending his decision to publish the work (which St. Martin's subsequently dropped), Dunne made it clear that he considered it absurd for people to expect him to judge the author's reliability.
David Plotz is absolutely right in his July 23 piece, "The Secret Service's Real Secret," about the extent to which presidential protection has become absurd, but even Plotz fails to ask outright the most important question: What makes the president's life so valuable?