Lonni is brave, interesting, funny and just a whacko.
"Some of his ideas sound frankly a bit whacko," the author writes of Churchill's military wheezes in the first world war (and they certainly were, as the dead might attest).
"If Daesh wants to attack they will but it will take planning and I won't be THE target; if the whacko wants to get to heaven he or she will have to contend with armed guards and a choice of targets, and the same with criminal kidnappers – a growth industry in Iraq," she wrote.
Martin, the original whacko from Waco, grew up in Texas and later California with his sister, Melinda, in the care of upright, religious parents.
In the end the plan will lead to even more savage fighting, to more entrenched political barriers to compromise, to a failed Iraqi state providing the opportunity for every breed of Islamic whacko to do its thing.
Twitter Vision is alarmingly hypnotic as a map of the world scrolls from country to country, with dialogue boxes popping up every second or so that contain everything from news to opinion to the plain whacko.
Restored to sanity, although by his own admission still for a long time a "bohemian, beatnik, oddball, kaftan-wearing, reefer-smoking whacko", Postlethwaite gradually moved away from the stage to film.
The effort, which carries the theme "Tobacco is whacko if you're a teen," seeks to reach teenagers with its anti-smoking messages in print, on the Internet (www.buttoutnow.com) and through sponsorships.
"It's an invitation for whackos to give you a hard time.
Out in the west, words such as enviro-whackos are popularised by rightwing radio hosts such as the ex-Watergate conspirator Gordon Liddy, who passes on to his millions of listeners the message that global warming is a lie.
As leader, he has run his party with Bolshevik efficiency – hammering a caucus perhaps a bit over-laden, by historical standards, with yokels, whackos and chancers, into a wide-eyed, tight-lipped regiment of skittish yes-people.
