Last week I applauded the fact that Kerviel – who had bizarrely been portrayed in some quarters as some sort of latter-day Robin Hood without giving a cent to the poor – has been brought to book.
Philip Pullman, whose acclaimed Northern Lights (Scholastic, £5.99) and The Subtle Knife (Scholastic, £5.99) have (bizarrely) been accused by fundamentalist Christians of promoting satanism, commented that a nihilistic children's book might be possible as an experiment but would not work.
Figures like Robert Burns, whose reams of 18th century poems are just waiting to be misinterpreted at will, and Keir Hardie, the forefather of the Labour Party who favoured Scottish "Home Rule" but died 99 years ago, have bizarrely been claimed by both sides of the debate and are the subject of much contention.
Hughes has, quite bizarrely, been punished for one bad Test at Lord's, whereas Khawaja has been rewarded for a solitary promising Test innings of 54 at Lord's which, unlike Hughes's 81* at Trent Bridge, did nothing to alter the course of the Test match.
Having bizarrely claimed last season that promotion wasn't a priority, it's surely the only one for the club this time.
This is something we've bizarrely failed to do at home.
Yes, it was indeed "like an English village that had bizarrely taken root in Japan".
By using the language of advertising to undermine its principles, DeLillo has inspired a thousand theses, but he has also been bizarrely accused of anti-Americanism.
My generation has long been bizarrely comfortable with being looked at, and as performers on the Facebook stage, we upload pictures of ourselves cooking dinner for our parents or doing keg stands at last night's party; we are reckless with our personal information.
Yet that, bizarrely, is what the government has encouraged farmers to do in the drought-afflicted south-west.
