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"He has made himself the stooge, the mark, for every crazy blogger, political quack, racial theorist, foreign leader or nutcase peddling a story that he might repackage to his benefit as a tweet, an appointment, an executive order or a policy," the Los Angeles Times editorial board wrote earlier this month.
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The causes of Bachmann's close call last November with her Democratic challenger can easily be traced to ambivalent Republican voters, who had to choose between the Democrat they didn't know or the nutcase they did.
But however tempting the urge to just dismiss West as a narcissistic crank or a nutcase, there's something weirdly compelling about him, perhaps because there's frequently a germ of truth to what he says, even if you have to delve through several leagues of demented-sounding solipsistic old cobblers to reach it.
It seems to be coming to this: Was he a Muslim or a nutcase?
He records instances of negativity and abuse, with people calling him a "junkie, or a nutcase"—instances that have made him wanted to pack in his public raving days for good.
My parents are certainly very liberal and unconventional, which is often envied by friends; I think it's safe to say that my father is a nutcase or eccentric – apparently most artists are.
But this time the scene shifts between New York and Los Angeles, and instead of any serial killer or garden variety nutcase there is, well, something else: a spooky, quasi-supernatural presence that may or may not be entirely of this world.A fading rock star is receiving letters from a former lover.
You know, they think 'There goes that nutcase' or whatever and you're not quite sure what people's perceptions are because anybody would want to go on an Ashes tour and play in an Ashes and he's just walked away from that and it was tough.
"No one could understand how Thurston, who always had a good nose for the user, the groupie, the nutcase or the hanger-on, had let himself get pulled under by her," writes Gordon, in the most arresting chapter of the book.
As she has pointed out in the past, Martin Luther King Jr. "wasn't called a New Age nutcase or considered an intellectual lightweight" for emphasizing the power of love.
And you don't, unless you're a nutcase (or Noel Edmonds), expect your life to be sorted out with a bit of "cosmic ordering".
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