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That’s the level of idiocy in the Los Angeles city government.
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The idiocy of these people knows no bounds.
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Boy stuff and the preposterousness of it all.
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Italian football is compelling in its sheer unpredictability, the sweep of its beauty and preposterousness on so many levels.
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The forecast for Thursday calls for craziness.
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Meanwhile, the Spurs had to rush off the court to avoid getting caught up in all the craziness.
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Adding to the mind-blowing zaniness of the piece?
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As was the case in the first season as well, the finale escalates to a place of thrilling zaniness, with a little less ultimate emotional gravitas this time around.
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And with those road destinations, there’s plenty of room for late-season winter weather wackiness.
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These flashes of melancholy or yearning give the record complexity and depth, as well as stopping it from devolving into wackiness.
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But the flight to extremism, and the metastasizing inanity, is a two-party problem, and those of us who are Democrats and who care about the importance of regrowing the dormant (if not dead) political center have an obligation to try to do something about it.
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The post-liberals stand for cruelty and inanity, but Brooks can’t admit to standing for much of anything at all.
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Brooks also taught Wilder how to take something funny, push it all the way to the point of absurdity, then keep going.
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The second lady is perhaps the most interesting figure in Trumpworld right now, and certainly the only one who understands the absurdity of it all.
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The Emmys’ producers passing up on even the slightest possibility of a Werner Herzog acceptance speech is sheer lunacy.
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Mamdani’s $22 billion housing lunacy proposal will socialize the skyline.
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