Space shuttle mock-up floats past South Florida - Sun Sentinel
25 May 2012, 1:41 pm
What appears to be a NASA Space Shuttle glided past South Florida's shoreline Friday, an incongruous visitor that seemed to be floating along the ocean, much to the delight — and consternation — of beachgoers. The waterborne bird ...

Robinson: Obama's shift on gay marriage - Why the delay? - Des Moines Register
25 May 2012, 2:21 am
It seemed incongruous to me that someone who so valued fairness and inclusiveness would have such a blind spot. Ultimately, history will care only that Obama was the first president to acknowledge that same-sex marriage is a national issue ...

In the Spotlight - Moscow Times
24 May 2012, 1:21 pm
This week, the Eurovision Song Contest is being held in Baku with all its usual deadly seriousness and an incongruous dose of Caspian glamour. The Eurovision logo is everywhere. One of the popular souvenirs is a flag with Azerbaijan's flag on ...

Mexico's Carlos Reygadas springs surrealist surprise at Cannes with 'Post Tenebras Lux' - News1130.com
24 May 2012, 9:32 am
The reference to surrealist cinema icon Luis Bunuel was apt. Reygadas' "Post Tenebras Lux" — the title means light after darkness — includes such incongruous elements as the devil, disturbing dream sequences and landscapes that look seethingly alive.

The Bard speaketh Dari: Afghan troupe performs Shakespeare - Times of India
24 May 2012, 3:27 am
After I heard about the attack, I laughed. Pure stress and trauma makes you react in incongruous ways," says Jaber, who has been working in Afghanistan since 2005. The group, with the aid of the British Council, the Indian Council for Cultural ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally to Discuss Risks of Internet - New York Times
20 May 2012, 9:04 pm
It was an incongruous sight for a baseball stadium: tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, all dressed in black suits and white shirts, filing through the gates of Citi Field on Sunday, wearing not blue-and-orange Mets caps but tall ...

House Comes to an End: Producers and Cast Recall Creating a Curmudgeon - Seattle Post Intelligencer
18 May 2012, 3:44 pm
Basically, it lists a series of incongruous symptoms... and then it took 1,200 words to discover the mystery of what the diagnosis was. It was as simple as that - the notion of a medical mystery with the symptoms as the suspects. David Shore (creator ...

Paradigm Lost: Why the rEVOLution Has Not Been Televised - Huffington Post
16 May 2012, 11:07 am
They would consistently identify the cards correctly. After a while, however, the experimenters would slip in "incongruous cards" in which the colors red and black were switched, such as black hearts or diamonds and red clubs or spades. What did the ...

In Obama’s stance on gay marriage, a return to hope - Washington Post
10 May 2012, 4:29 pm
It seemed incongruous that someone who so valued fairness and inclusiveness would have such a blind spot.

Tiger Woods is an old fogey in the company of young talents Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy - YAHOO!
7 May 2012, 2:10 pm
In other words, if it’s too loud, you’re too old. Rickie Fowler didn’t just win the prestigious Wells Fargo Championship in a playoff win over Rory McIlroy (and D.A. Points, so incongruous to the overarching narrative that he needs to be in parentheses.)