A “koan” is a paradoxical riddle, more or less.
Here’s an example: “If you have ice cream, I will give you ice cream. If you have none, I’ll take it away”. (It’s an “ice cream koan”).
As Pejman Yousefsadeh points out, the paradoxical riddles about Obamacare aren’t nearly as amusing, to say nothing of sweet and creamy.
This is what the end of the world looks like:
In an extreme effort to stamp out unfriendly competition, a youth soccer group in Midlake, Ontario, is eliminating soccer balls from their games and forcing kids to pretend they’re kicking a ball around. “This year to address some of the negative effects of competition, we’ve actually removed the ball,” said Helen Dabney-Coyle of Midlake’s Soccer Association, OpposingViews.com reported. “And the kids are loving it.”