pointlessness

However, since I have never been above exercises in pointlessness (see the playoffs capsules, above), I am here this morning to offer up my picks.

Postseason predictions -- or, as Boz calls it, 'sheer folly' Dave Sheinin 2010

Play, Konner says, “combining as it does great energy expenditure and risk with apparent pointlessness, is a central paradox of evolutionary biology.”

Play’s the Thing 2010

Play, Konner says, “combining as it does great energy expenditure and risk with apparent pointlessness, is a central paradox of evolutionary biology.”

Play’s the Thing 2010

Play, Konner says, “combining as it does great energy expenditure and risk with apparent pointlessness, is a central paradox of evolutionary biology.”

Play’s the Thing 2010

Anyone who frequents Twitter or Facebook or texts on their cellphones knows that pointlessness is often exactly the point.

Twidiots that Twuffle the time away 2010

But then, I’m the type to think that all torture porn is just pointlessness from the gore for gore’s sake school of filmmaking anyway.

The Final Movie Review–A Surprising And Deep Piece 2009

But what's offensive is not so much the "pointlessness" of the violence as the way the women characters seem to invite it.

Michael Winterbottom on The Killer Inside Me 2010

It's time for that annual exercise in hopelessness, pointlessness and foolishness — predicting the Daytime Emmys!

Daytime Emmy Awards: Michael Logan's Fearless Predictions 2011

This is the same pointlessness as negotiating a peace treaty with Abbas.

Matthew Yglesias » Remember the Arab Peace Initiatives 2009

Among her myriad admirers was Woody Allen, who, in the 2010 documentary Sometimes Life is Bearable, said of the poet, "She is able to capture the pointlessness and sadness of life, but somehow still be affirmative."

John Lundberg: The World Remembers Wislawa Szymborska John Lundberg 2012