President Erdogan was able to use the FaceTime smartphone app to call a TV station, a bizarre scenario that risked the appearance of weakness but also sapped plotters' momentum and allowed him to call for the public to flood the streets in opposition.
It helped create a bizarre attitude to risk, which is still with us, whereby it is acceptable to blow a billion pounds on something as uncertain as the Millennium Dome, yet the lesser details have to be micromanaged by expensive consultants until the life is squeezed out of buildings or other cultural projects.
Trump, who had just met with the Finnish president, compared California's forests to Finland's, which, he insisted, were assiduously raked to reduce fire risks—a bizarre claim that prompted one bemused Finn to post a photo on social media.
As previous reports from The Huffington Post have noted, Lew declared at the 2010 Senate hearing that he didn't think financial deregulation led to the financial crisis, saying the real problem was banks taking too many risks with bizarre derivatives.
was a strange phenomenon, and — as this documentary and the series indicate — in many ways a wonderful one, despite its broad stereotypes, bizarre working conditions, and risk of spinal injury.
The Europeans are right to look askance at the looming crisis of succession in Egypt, beleaguered Israel, unborn Palestine, divided Lebanon, fundamentalist Islam in Morocco, bombs in Algeria, Muammar Qaddafi's bizarre Libyan autocracy, the risk that the Turkish courts declare the ruling party unconstitutional.
Last week a member of the Bank's Financial Policy Committee, Donald Kohn, told MPs that said the market tendency to ignore geopolitical risk was "just bizarre".
"That was a crazy risk and a bizarre thing that would never have in a million years happened if I was grinding at a start-up," Mr. Shapiro said.
Never let it be said the company isn't willing to take a risk with a bizarre and probably misguided idea.
