"I looked like some kind of crackpot," Roma told Hyperallergic.
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But now things are taking a turn down crackpot alley.
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Rand is generally treated as a figure of the crackpot right,
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He's called a genius, charlatan, visionary and crackpot in equal measure.
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"Africa rising was really good for some crackpot dictators," he added.
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The chief rabbit, Threarah (Tom Wilkinson), dismisses Fiver as a crackpot.
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From "crackpot theory" (birds are dinosaurs) to textbook in 433 years.
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Thank you, Devin, for ... It takes a crackpot to know one.
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"Inlets," the John Cage score used for "Inlets 2," sounds totally crackpot.
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Over the past few years, conspiracy theories have gone from crackpot ideas peddled by crazy uncles and desert dwellers to even crazier crackpot ideas peddled by prominent politicians, cable news hosts, and tons of old people on Facebook.
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Alex Jones is a crackpot radio host who traffics in bizarre conspiracy theories.
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Neoreaction was the brainchild of a British (of course) crackpot named Nick Land.
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"I thought this crackpot idea would be over at this point," he said.
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BARRY DILLER: The idea that you have money in politics is simply crackpot.
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Chris: Can I tell you a crackpot theory about the living room of tomorrow?
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We owe it to our readers to signal when we're writing about a crackpot.
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Surely the supposed ultra-enlightened intelligence of forum atheism is at odds with crackpot conspiracies?
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Shorts might be the natural progression of oversharing, or another crackpot social app few want.
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It has been translated in so many different ways; three examples: creep, crackpot, old fart.
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The central bank, which should be independent and technocratic, defers to a leader with crackpot views.
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Donald Trump established himself as a political force through his leadership of the crackpot birther movement.
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Science may have long considered fountains of youth a crackpot endeavor, but these thinkers weren't crackpots.
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Bill Clinton and his team ultimately complied with every subpoena, no matter how personal or crackpot.
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Imagine the millions and millions of people crackpot theories like this are reaching and influencing. pic.twitter.
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He was first respected as a diet and social reformer, and then demeaned as a zealous crackpot.
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But it's not totally out of character for Nevins, who appears to be a total fucking crackpot.
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One of my part-time employees tends to believe every crackpot theory she finds on the internet.
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In Mr. Trump, Mr. Putin found the perfect dupe to promote even the most crackpot of theories.
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And please expose the crackpot theorizing behind a climate-change skeptic picked to run the Environmental Protection Agency.
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If you take seriously Donald Trump's crackpot proposals, if they were implemented, it would leave America impoverished and isolated.
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For those who might not know, the "deep state" is a crackpot conspiracy theory often embraced by political extremists.
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Teleprompter Trump is dull Trump, low-energy and lacking the crackpot conviction that makes regular Trump hard to avoid.
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The crackpot Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, who promotes the ethnopluralist doctrine "Eurasianism," has flown to Paris to meet Benoist.
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Fringe is frequently very funny, largely thanks to crackpot Walter and his insatiable appetite for junk food and drugs.
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FACEBOOK WAS a breeding-ground for partisanship, crackpot articles and conspiracy theories long before America's presidential election in 2016.
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"We have to fight against propaganda and crackpot conspiracy theories," he said at one point in the Naval Academy speech.
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Fan described the circuit breaker, which froze trading when indexes moved 7 percent in either direction, as a "crackpot idea".
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In a profession that frowned on self-promotion, he was regarded as a publicity-seeking eccentric, if not a crackpot.
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John Kidd's early life is like a Wes Anderson newsreel of an American upbringing — extraordinary and crackpot, bending toward fabulism.
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With the departure of the seasoned officials who led the "steady state," such cruel and crackpot ideas never really die.
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But a conspiracy theory is not necessarily crackpot or wrong: If the conspiracy is real, the theory may be correct.
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CAVUTO: I have another crackpot theory which are very, very, very nice to, in the past, just dismiss and shoo away.
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Not a crackpot—she lectures at the University of Cambridge and has published a string of papers in Science and Nature.
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Admirers of a responsible politician or righteous cause coalesce quickly, but the same goes for followers of a hatemonger or crackpot.
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The Republican Party, which put up with Donald Trump's racist, crackpot ravings throughout the primary campaign, is finally showing signs of resistance.
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Trump has a crackpot for acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, a man associated with a company that promoted time travel and Bigfoot.
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The site's existing policies allow any crackpot with a website to create a page to advertise it and whatever political hyperbole he pleases.
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UK ELECTION: UK PM BORIS JOHNSON SAYS WOULD BE AGAINST "CRACKPOT" SCHEMES TO PROVIDE FREE BROADBAND INVOLVING NATIONALISING PARTS OF COMPANIES - BBC RADIO
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Art review At the Met Breuer, the crackpot exhibition "Everything Is Connected" reveals how artists have tracked, critiqued and sometimes embraced conspiracy theories.
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This is what happened to Barry Goldwater in 1964, when New York Republicans like Nelson A. Rockefeller attacked Goldwater as an "extremist" crackpot.
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In fact, the catastrophe is caused by the crackpot socialism introduced by Hugo Chávez and continued by Mr Maduro after Chávez's death in 2013.
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If all of this timeline obsessing was the only evidence against Chic, it would be easy to dismiss it as a crackpot fan theory.
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It takes at least $500,000 — the amount of money given Cramer's campaigns by the fossil fuel industry — to buy that kind of crackpot theorizing.
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Barr even traveled to Europe to inquire about these conspiracy theories, dismissed by American intelligence agencies and outside experts as a crackpot political scam.
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As president, Trump's flights of crackpot fancy have become the de facto talking points of the Republican Party and much of the right-wing media.
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So in 2017 we reach a mortifying moment for a great democracy: We must decide whether our 45th president is a liar or a crackpot.
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"What we won't be doing is some crackpot scheme that would involve many, many tens of billions of taxpayers' money nationalising a British business," Johnson said.
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He was a fairly well-known scientist and philosopher (though there were just as many people that thought of him as a crackpot and an occultist).
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Rather than crackpot policies such as leaving without a deal or having a second referendum, Mrs May claims to offer a realistic solution to a difficult problem.
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"I tried to make the email sound somewhat intellectual so they wouldn't think I was a crackpot," Burkett told the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in a release.
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"MMT is a crackpot idea... sounds good for a first grader," the founder and chief executive officer of Doubleline Capital said in an investor webcast on Tuesday.
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He'll sulphurize the air more or less constantly with crackpot, malignant yarns about the Deep State enemies arrayed against him and the Republican jackals who betrayed him.
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He has a crackpot dream of starting a vigilante militia that will do things the Israel Defense Forces will not, and using religious retreats to lure recruits.
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I know we say this all the time, but now is actually the most wonderful time of the year — for the crackpot shoppers among us, at least.
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They're pulling for Ned + Ashara Dayne (a minor tragic character who never made it onto the show), or they have some other minor crackpot theory of their own.
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So, we have a crackpot egomaniac with questionable levels of power puffing his chest about his remarkable capabilities and a North Korean dictator claiming to have nuclear weapons.
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The best part of Thrive Global, however, might be its store, which appears to be the lovechild of the crackpot InfoWars store and Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle abomination GOOP.
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When Jerry left for the trip, the possibility of a Trump victory felt about as plausible as the crackpot theories suggesting Hitler escaped to Argentina after the war.
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Instead of economic nationalism, you had a potpourri of crackpot conservative thinking, which provided cover for a set of economic policies that benefit the wealthy and multinational behemoths.
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He has aired crackpot conspiracy theories, such as one linking the father of Senator Ted Cruz, his Republican primary rival, to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Books of The Times While the radical composer John Cage (21977-21983) was alive, it seemed easier to dismiss him as an irritating crackpot than it does now.
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The Bundy movement seems to have internalized this crackpot legal doctrine, and the Bundys in turn helped fuel the well-heeled corporate-led effort to privatize public lands.
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Crime Every 16th-century savant and scholar and crackpot aspired to study in Prague under great minds like the astronomer Johannes Kepler and the court mathematician, Tycho Brahe.
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Even the Force, the mystical energy field which "binds the galaxy together", has been forgotten by all except a crackpot zealot (Donnie Yen, a legend of martial arts cinema).
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While governor of Indiana, he tried to start a state-run news, well, propaganda really, agency that was stopped in its tracks when details of the crackpot plan emerged.
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Trump appointed Michael Flynn to be his National Security Advisor even though Flynn had regularly retweeted all sorts of conspiracy theories that came from crackpot broadcasters and social media contributors.
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It begins as an account of the founding of a crackpot religious sect named for an Italian-American coal miner who miraculously survives a mine disaster that kills 98 others.
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Nothing about Hitler's ascent to power -- from an obscure blowhard spouting crackpot racial theories in beer halls in 1920s Munich to becoming the master of much of Europe -- was preordained.
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With a soft spot for the crackpot, Boyle has, over many years and novels, made hay with American iconoclasts and ideologues, myopic seers who strive against the currents of convention.
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In the intervening decades, she has become an internet curiosity and minor cult heroine among soul music aficionados who have spun crackpot theories as to her whereabouts and well-being.
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Although Missouri leans heavily Republican, she defended her Senate seat six years ago against the self-appointed sexologist Todd Akin, he of the crackpot distinction between legitimate and illegitimate rape.
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Who wasn't, you know, I think bigoted the way Buchanan and Paul are, but still, it was a mixture of sensible unhappiness with certain things and then some various crackpot theories.
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He was looked upon by many in the press corps as a crackpot, and—ironically given his place in the history of AIDS coverage—is a fierce opponent of gay rights.
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By the new Trump metric, the more the public knows about your crackpot ideas and your sex life, the better for buzz that translates into big rallies and action in voter booths.
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Throughout most of "The Water Cure," the reader can't tell whether the daughters really are refugees from a poisoned apocalyptic future or just the unwitting captives of a tiny crackpot separatist cult.
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Lucey creates a rollicking snow globe version of an almost unimaginable world of weath, crackpot notions of self-improvement and high-flying self-indulgence, and her book overflows with hilarious, disturbing detail.
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This isn't some crackpot theory surmising that the English trio enjoys toking up every once in a while (because their 2006 sophomore album Under The Iron Sea is actually pretty sonically adventurous).
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That's something else to think about when you can't sleep because the crackpot next door has put beer bottles on the tree stumps in front of his house and decides 11 p.m.
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It would be easy to brush off Wigmore as a crackpot who came to America and got a lucky break, and it would be even easier to categorize her story as an anomaly.
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Pretending to believe in crackpot conspiracy theories and vilifying those who tell the truth won't do anything to help people adjust to the new reality — it just makes the fall that much harder.
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Any cabdriver, barber or internet troll can mouth off about his crackpot hypotheses; but if a president accidentally lets slip an authentic, uncensored thought it's called a "gaffe" and costs him approval points.
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But the ability to focus a dating search on one specific category can also be horrifying if the category of interest is built around pernicious things like hate or violence or crackpot ideas.
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By 2016 his views on trade and migration, once dismissed as crackpot, were spreading so fast that everyone in the party had embraced them — except its elected officials and its establishment presidential candidates.
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By the new Trump metric, the more the public knows about your crackpot ideas and your sex life, the better for buzz that translates into big rallies and action in the voter booth.
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The Washington Post reported on-the-record accounts of four women about Moore's predatory and illegal behavior, backed up by interviews with 30 friends and family, versus the denial of one crackpot candidate.
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Its conjuring of American conspiracy theories, through paintings and installations evoking secret cabals and satanic cults, feels all too relevant amid today's crackpot theories of world leaders running child sex rings in pizza restaurants.
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But there's something mesmerizing about how the scene is staged: in the inky blackness of downtown Twin Peaks, with Nadine's drapes noiselessly opening and closing behind a crackpot YouTube star and his biggest fan.
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So how might my conversation on the train have gone if I'd heeded my own advice… Let's go back to that moment when I observed that things were taking a turn down crackpot alley.
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And more recently, another LA snarl-up (the city has a lot of them) caused him to cook up his latest crackpot scheme: a futuristic network of superhighways built underneath the nation's congested urban centers.
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So the duo start launching crackpot schemes for instant fame, from shooting a viral YouTube video of them giving a homeless man an oversized novelty check (for $144) to going on their own murder spree.
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Trump's victory, if unchallenged from the right, would force conservatives to replace their own principles with his rancid stew of racism and sexism, along with his slew of various crackpot theories on politics and economics.
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From the first shot of Koresh, staring soulfully through his aviator frames at an incoming government helicopter, he registers not as a manipulative crackpot but as a true believer who got in over his head.
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The penguin portion is not for the faint of heart.) In 13 breezy chapters, each devoted to a misunderstood creature, Cooke collects some of our most crackpot notions (and the equally startling truths) about animals.
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In the '50s, for example, congressional hearings elevated the crackpot theories of the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who seemed especially vexed that comics publishers were allowing Wonder Woman to compete on an equal footing with men.
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The live-forever impulse is, we know, driving all manner of frantic, crackpot-ish behavior in the fringier corners of the tech-world; but will the nerds really pull through for us on this one?
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Consider Black Mirror's powerful season-ending episode "Black Museum," in which a young black woman named Nish visits an institution in the desert dedicated to archiving "authentic criminological artifacts," curated by its crackpot proprietor Rolo Haynes.
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Batman exhorts white youth not to confront their own white privilege but to reject the "crackpot lies" of bigots who've forgotten "our American heritage of freedom and equality," since "a nation divided by prejudice" will be weak.
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" I witnessed the heated exchange, during which Wood and his wife accused Casten of cheapening the political discourse when he derided Trump's immigration policies as "racist" and referred to Trump's claims about Biden as "crackpot conspiracy theories.
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But here, rather than use crackpot psychology, these trolls used bad-faith interpretations of public Github repositories, which programmers use to host source code for the purposes of collaboration and contribution, in an effort to legitimize their vitriol.
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" So instead, at his latest campaign rally in Dallas, above, Mr. Trump called the speaker of the House "crazy," a rival candidate "very dumb," a House committee chairman a "fraud" and the governor of another state a "crackpot.
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Crawford vehemently disagreed with Kearney's decision in the case, calling him a "crackpot judge trying to make a name for himself," and said that citizens have clear rights to document public officials and to remain silent while doing so.
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Putin and Flynn got cozy in Moscow after the general was deposed as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for his crackpot theories (then known at the DIA as "Flynn facts," now known to one and all as "alternative facts").
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King might have become known as a former civil-rights leader who peddled crackpot plans for a living wage, job guarantees and the redistribution of land and capital—ideas that have gained ground lately, but are still outside the political mainstream.
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With his crackpot notion that Hitler was a Zionist, Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, indirectly revived this trope today, leading to his chaotic but eventual suspension by the Labour Party (already discredited by a rash of anti-Semitic outbursts).
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Could it be because the Post's editors are so flummoxed by the Trump phenomenon they are reduced to promoting even the most crackpot groups and individuals whose self-aggrandizing mission is to undo, or undermine the legitimacy of, Trump's election?
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"The Russian operatives unloaded on Mueller through fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter and beyond, falsely claiming that the former FBI director was corrupt and that the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election were crackpot conspiracies," the newspaper notes.
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"The Russian operatives unloaded on Mueller through fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter and beyond, falsely claiming that the former F.B.I. director was corrupt and that the allegations of Russian interference in the 25 election were crackpot conspiracies," writes the WaPo.
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This makes Trump look like a leaky vessel for the crackpot ideas of Stephen Bannon, Paul Ryan and others — ideas that have nothing to do with the public good but rather with advancing poorly informed, twisted and juvenile philosophies about power.
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His 1982 doctoral dissertation was titled "The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism," in which he made the crackpot claim that Jews cooperated with the Nazis and that many fewer than 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
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She learned how Ms. Derraugh, who goes by Dana, treated sick puppies through methods that the consumer protection department, formerly known as the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, described in court papers as "crackpot, back-alley home remedies," including administering Robitussin.
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My guess is this: Even then, with our primitive knowledge of the internet and limited understanding as to how bad the Y2K bug really was, we could still sniff out a crackpot, and there were a lot of those hanging around at the time.
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And on Twitter, someone going by the name of Mothra P.I. has a theory about how cats can assume a new state of matter: In everyday conversation, we tend to use the word "theory" to mean a hunch, an idle speculation, or a crackpot notion.
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My spouse, whose ignorance of both the movies and the music in question is absolute (he was born in Turkey, after the brief vogue of disaster movies had waned), had a fine time, enjoying the daffiness of the performances and the willfully crackpot plotting.
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" He says "this is not the work of the proverbial crackpot blogger in her pajamas but rather a white paper from a group of seven well-credentialed academics, led by Guy Rolnik of the Stigler Center of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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But when it became clear that GoT would progress past the last of Martin's published novels, A Dance With Dragons — leaving no one with foreknowledge of where the show was headed — those theories began to transform from fun idle chatter into the realm of crackpot prophecy.
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Nothing can protect her from oppo research — everything she's ever said on every TV show over the years can and will be used out of context in attack ads, every crackpot health theory she has ever entertained on screen or in print will be used against her.
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" Wayne Besen, the founding executive director of Truth Wins Out, a gay-rights advocacy group, wrote on its website after Dr. Nicolosi's death, "He was impervious to facts and must have known, on some level, his crackpot theories to convert L.G.B.T. people into heterosexuals didn't work.
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She steals scenes from the main cast just with her facial expressions when she's lurking in the background, and when she takes the foreground to dance to DeBarge's "Rhythm Of The Night" or enthuse about her latest crackpot invention, she comes across like the world's most upbeat Batman villain.
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Approached as a scientific investigation — Foos repeatedly expresses his "higher purpose" to use his motel "laboratory" for "observing people in their natural state" in pursuit of discoveries like those made by sexologists at the Masters and Johnson clinic and the Kinsey Institute — his work is not even crackpot.
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That sounds like a crackpot mindtrip, but the echoes of David Fincher's The Game — where Michael Douglas' character is tricked into self-examination by having his reality swept out from underneath him — are one of the core things Bousman and Sears were going after in the first place.
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One of the oddest features of the 20083 presidential race is that the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, emerged on the political scene this decade by repeatedly questioning whether President Barack Obama was born in America — and yet it seems Trump's embrace of this crackpot conspiracy theory has hardly been discussed during this campaign.
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" The president seems like even more of a crackpot, given the New York Times story on Friday revealing that, even as Republican lawmakers vociferously defended the president, they received a briefing "that Russia had engaged in a yearslong campaign to essentially frame Ukraine as responsible for Moscow's own hacking of the 2016 election.
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Johnson enthusiastically assists the most prominent neo-Nazi website in order to secure strategic alliances and cut himself a healthy paycheck; the president played on middle America's fear of a more diverse nation, befriending any crackpot conspiracist, flaunting the constitution's emoluments clause and ethics norms, all while shaking down the Secret Service for some spending money.
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My 10-year-old, who has never been especially interested in dinosaurs, loved the "Fight Report" (a blow-by-blow account of Stan Stegosaur's battle with Alan Allosaur) and the funny Q. and A. with the so-called Doomsday Dino, a seemingly crackpot Acanthopholis who tells the paper that a giant rock is hurtling toward the planet.
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Image: Shutterstock/ LuminisWhile the Alex Jones-helmed Info Wars may have never seen one of these before, it appears at least a few of Trump's supporters online have, and were quick to call bullshit—in spite of crackpot theories that the bulge was some sort of blood pack, electrical stimulation apparatus, colostomy bag, a bomb, or, of course, an earpiece.
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It was basically Roger's id on TV. He'd wake up in the morning with some bee in his bonnet, spout it off to Bill Shine, and Shine would tell us to put it on TV." She says that the show's producers would "cull far-right, crackpot Web sites" for content, and adds, "Never did I hear anyone worry about getting a second source.
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" While Gallo's theories for why people have been seeing this flying humanoid might help soothe the nerves of Chicagoans afraid to look up at the sky, Amitrano still believes he saw something that night: "The reason I said something in the first place is that nobody wants to say anything because they don't want to be perceived as a crackpot or a crazy person.
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Whether critiquing the way we looked at the Vietnam War (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July), the Reaganomic excesses of the '80s (Wall Street), or even conventional cinematic norms (the jarring, music-video inspired Natural Born Killers), Stone has always tried to push the envelope — and if that resulted in some people thinking he sounded like a crackpot conspiracy theorist (hi, JFK), then so much the better.
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There are crackpots who believe that the earth is flat, and they don't deserve to be quoted without explaining that this is an, er, outlying view, and the same goes for a crackpot who has argued that climate change is a Chinese-made hoax, who has called for barring Muslims and who has said that he will build a border wall and that Mexico will pay for it.
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Comedian Kate McKinnon on Saturday parodied 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," joking about the Massachusetts senator's "crackpot idea" of actually saying how she's going to implement policies she's promoting.
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In "Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas," she does even more of what she does best, creating a rollicking snow globe version of an almost unimaginable world of wealth, crackpot notions of self-improvement and high-flying self-indulgence (like now; you know who you are, Goop) woven around an often passionate commitment to, deep admiration for and wide-ranging pursuit of the fine and literary arts (less like now).
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White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley called the author of a bombshell new book on President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's administration a "crackpot" on Thursday night, adding to the White House's denial of the book's claims.
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Cohen still believes, as he wrote in 2014, that Snowden is "a character so decent that John le Carré or Frederick Forsyth would have blushed before conceiving him," but most Americans still seem eager to see Snowden as either a Pollyanna or a cynical grifter; bookstores and news sites have scads of hot takes alleging he's a Russian plant, a Chinese spy, a self-aggrandizing anarcho-libertarian crackpot, or just a bread-and-butter traitor.
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Shaw explained by email, "My fascination with all the stuff began while in high school and college, as I began finding leaflets aimed at converting the young, and crackpot publications about UFOs"; raised Episcopalian, he discovered the 700 Club and the rituals of Christian fundamentalism through an illegal cable hookup while at U of M. Collected over nearly 50 years, the objects range from books, pamphlets, and didactic drawings to t-shirts, comic books, records, and anatomical drawings.
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