Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org, the antiwar group that helped propel Dean's campaign for President, told me not long ago, "I don't see how Bush can create a state of fear in our country, and go off in a reckless rush to war in Iraq, and then take credit somehow for exporting democracy, which is a bizarre term, anyway, because democracy is about self-governance".
And Schultz also has a tendency to describe his company's problems in increasingly bizarre terms.
Elsewhere, she jauntily explores rape whistle etiquette, imagines a gender-swap date rape, and defeats, on his own bizarre terms, the US senator who downplayed the seriousness of rape by comparing women to ducks.
"It strikes me as bizarre in terms of political calculus," said Kenneth Sherrill, a professor of political science at Hunter College who has written on the role of gays in politics.
Anyone who has a blog and has been bored enough to check their statistics will be aware of the bizarre search terms that people type in before stumbling across their pages; my friend Emma recently noticed searches for "mackerel painting" and "gulag lips of inpenetrability" that had inexplicably directed people to her blog about life in Brussels.
"It is bizarre in terms of the magnitude of the fans that turn out each week, but it's the league we are in," he said.
Pone home The Powell doctrine revisited ReprintsTo set the tone, Mr Perry has put forward a bizarre (and, in terms of paper, deeply wasteful) first budget, with zeroes beside every item.
In a bizarre derivative of the term, Rodriguez has become the Yankees' M.V.P. — most valuable product — for the immediate future.
He mentions the bizarre use of the term "sex scandals" for such incidents as Tailhook decades ago and the recent accusations that Bob Filner, the mayor of San Diego, groped women around him, among other offenses.
The first post, taken on its own terms, was bizarre.
However bizarre the explanation, in terms of official international observation that seems to be that.
