So far, only contradictory and perplexing signals emanate from Washington, D.

FORBES: Third-Quarter GDP Growth Expanded To 2.7% For Lousy Reasons

If those ideas are sometimes self-contradictory, so be it.

ECONOMIST: Imagining the soul

So how might these two apparently contradictory elements form some tangible paradox machine?

ENGADGET: iPhone 3,2 rumored to be in near-final testing phase, cue the CDMA speculation

Why so many moles, so many varied (and often contradictory) ideas and strategies and notions about innovation floating around?

FORBES: Innovation Whac-A-Mole

And so this is in no way contradictory to that.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

You have to hand it to Toyota for the way it has handled the contradictory realities that make reputation management so challenging.

FORBES: Toyota: From Recalls to Relevance

In doing so it also seems to be sending out contradictory messages.

FORBES: Why Did The BlackBerry Share Price Take A Hit, Friday?

My head was filled with images of the trip, so many of them beautiful, unexpected, even contradictory.

CNN: Flanders: Europe's best-kept design secret

The reason why clouds matter so much to the climate, and their role is so tricky to determine, is because they play two contradictory roles.

ECONOMIST: Climatology: Grey-sky thinking | The

But so far the response has been slow, hesitant and contradictory.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne: The name's Bond. Eurobond | The

So the response has been limited, often too slow and sometimes contradictory.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

And to do so on the basis of a future court decision finding in your favour is self-contradictory and absurd.

BBC: Sean Quinn's jailing reminiscent of Greek tragedy

Moreover, rates of substance abuse are sky high in folks with bipolar disorder, so you shouldn't look at the question of mania versus drug abuse as being contradictory possibilities.

CNN: How can I help someone I fear is abusing Adderall?

The key issue is whether they believe they have been lied to in the course of the contradictory evidence they have received on what was known by whom in the News Corp hierarchy about hacking and so forth.

BBC: Draft dodging