There is certainly plenty of tidying up to do in Poland's public administration; the danger is that dysfunctional old institutions will give way to dysfunctional new ones as sleazy old communists are replaced by new zealots and coalition kooks.
He had not only pleaded guilty, but also recanted, having, he said, in the meantime read the diaries of Adolf Eichmann, an SS officer who was a top organiser of the Holocaust.That recantation infuriated his supporters among the kooks and thugs of the neo-Nazi right.
The Burma cause attracts its share of kooks, as does Tibet.
Many new candidates claiming the tea-party tablecloth will run in Republican primaries this year.Yet the Democrats should not take much comfort from this, because few genuine kooks will prevail.
Television doesn't need any more mildly irritating kooks – Zooey Deschanel in E4's New Girl has seen to that – so the angry, sweary, pathologically stingy Bronagh (Sinéad Keenan) was a particularly welcome foil.
As I said, it seems that we (I write as a disabled journalist) are fair game because it isn't just acknowledged kooks like Bloom who delight in chucking bricks at us.
Brit School taught me to be open-minded I loved rubbing shoulders with complete kooks.
Composers free themselves from servitude, ascend to heights of bourgeois splendor, invent esoteric new languages, lose their minds, and straggle on as misfits and kooks.
Both these dogs seemed to me like outcasts, kooks, pains in the ass who the adults secretly wished would just succumb to their own vices already.
Goldwater demurred; though he conceded that some embarrassing "kooks" lurked among the Birchers, he insisted to Buckley that there were also some "nice guys," and that it would be injudicious to attack the group in public.
Mayer treats Hedwig and Yitzhak not like adults struggling with meaning and purpose but like the adolescents in the tiresome 2006 musical "Spring Awakening" (which won him a Best Direction Tony): they are "kooks," petulant teens who'll feel better when they finally grow up.
