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This Just In: Absurdities Around the Globe, by Robert R. Reilly – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

This Just In: Absurdities Around the Globe, by Robert R. Reilly

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Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash. Crisis Magazine

By Robert R. Reilly, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 8, 2024

Robert R. Reilly has written for many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, The American Spectator, and National Review, and is the author or contributing author of over 20 books. His most recent book is America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding (Ignatius Press).

 

From Paris to Wall Street to Milwaukee, the world is full of absurdities that defy common sense and reason.

Robert R. ReillyWe have a particularly rich offering of absurdities in this edition of “This Just In.”

At the opening of the Olympics, many were worried about the sewage level in the Seine River endangering Olympic aquatic contestants. How could anyone swim in that muck? Little did they know that the worst sewage would be floating on the Seine, not in it. Welcome to the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics.

Here’s the way the Associated Press characterized it: …

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