The Guardian's Nils Pratley said a debt crisis isn't a "wholly wacky notion" but also called for some perspective.
Even if you accept the wacky notion that an agency's highest obligation is to avoid executing its own function, however, DeMarco's rationale still doesn't wash.
Momentum is the wacky notion that, just because a stock is rising, it will keep on rising.
Millions of people here and abroad, though, saw through this particularly wacky notion, the consequences of which, in deaths, displacements and destruction, are far worse than the consequences of some poor guy believing he has the key to the J.F.K. assassination.
So, sometime late on Big Saturday, we'll start honing our speculations; and sometime late on Big Tuesday, we'll be able to judge this wacky notion of whether college football impacts electoral politics.
The proliferation of modern cable television and radio talk shows not to mention things like Twitter and YouTube provide forums for stars with wacky notions, says Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist who runs Quackwatch.org.org
"A lot of the teas we have created come from wacky notions," she says.
If you read any of the usual suspects - Derrida, Rorty, Lyotard, Kuhn - with care, you'll find that none of them ever suggests that 'anything goes'". Somehow the 'real' relativists always seem to be somewhere else, somehow their wacky notions always seem to evaporate on closer inspection, to turn into something perfectly sensible.
At times, the series feels like a dumping ground for his wackier notions (a talking monorail that likes riddles) and for the further explication of ideas from his previous books (the superflu from "The Stand").
As she concedes, parents and teachers have always rejected reformers' wackier notions.
