The consequence of the 11 defeats Celtic have sustained in his care so far this season was to be found in the irrational behaviour that accompanied the acquisition of a Tottenham reserve on loan until the end of the season.
Even analysts are baffled by the Fed's happy tone, which seems much more suited to a bubble of irrational exuberance rather than our own endless depressive malaise.
The rational, autonomous, self-aware agent acting in his own self-interest according to static preferences has faded as we realise that behaviour is largely irrational, unconscious and driven by external contexts.
In the first months of this government, Labour's often-irrational rage towards Clegg fuelled his resentment towards them.
Above all, that giving the arts a chance to be excellent – and we are talking of chance, of risk, of the variable, the impulsive, the uncertain, the irrational, the uncalculated, the shocking – depends on allowing the arts to talk of what they do, argue for what they do, justify what they do and explain what they do in their own terms.
Compassion means responding to this outbreak instead of ignoring it; it means fighting our own irrational fears and learning more about Ebola and the people who are battling it.
The aim of terrorism is to inspire irrational fear, to terrorise.
A case was made in the Lords last week to exempt universities from the irrational provisions of this new counter-terror legislation.
"If the people do not just dislike something, but think it is irrational, then it should not be done", the leader of the rightwing Fidesz party said in the interview.
Per contra, Thatcher's denouncing "the enemy within", invoking laws against union representation at GCHQ and ordering a three-line whip to fight Richard Shepherd's private member's bill on the Official Secrets Act were irrational.
This is no big deal, and my initial, irrational irritation subsides.
