My personal favourite for tortured logic was the one about how recognizing the tragedy of the Armenian genocide would prevent other genocides.
Another example of questionable inside-outside logic involves the bookies' favourites Geelong.
From such foundations, many have questioned the logic behind stretching the childhood favourite into a feature film, though it was made at Sendak's instigation and with his blessing.
The same logic, however, would have the USA favourites for this tournament, with Mexico runners-up.
It's like a Lynch movie about a Lynch movie – dream logic imposed onto dream logic, with many of his favourite themes reshuffled to create a new order in homage to Hollywood.
However, your leader on Narendra Modi, the favourite to become India's prime minister after the election, drew upon unseemly logic ("Can anyone stop Narendra Modi?", April 5th).
iPlayer Defying all logic, Trump's presidential campaign motors on, with the berkish billionaire favourite to win this week's Iowa Republican caucuses.
The app, developed by Bitchin Games, is described as "a logic puzzle" and has proved popular enough to knock the timeless mobile favourite Snake down to number eight.
And his jokes can sometimes be very good, though the ones in The Collected Jokes don't seem to include some of my favourites, like the superb riff on why the Iraq war followed the cultural logic of chocolate laxative.
It may fly in the face of logic to say this and, on recent form, some would have Everton as favourites, but Liverpool have performed well in the big games this season and the Wembley environment will suit them.
