How To Use Crackpot In A Sentence
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Most of them are not wealthy or trained or competent, and a lot are just crackpots.
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People are trying to keek their jobs and homes, and noone wants to hear any more about a crackpot preacher.
Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/6/08
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Calling Tolstoy a crackpot is not only nonsense, it displays moral obtusity.
Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?
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People on either side of this ‘argument’ are not crackpots; they are people with opinions, just like Harvey.
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I am amazed that such a crackpot scheme could be seriously entertained.
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In this case, is someone guilty of that old demon "liberal media bias" if they call a crackpot a crackpot because that would be the pro Obama position?
John Milewski: Unfair to the Unbalanced: When Fair and Balanced is Not Required
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He is no conservative, he's a crackpot - a tinhorn autocrat who has mistaken totalitarianism for conservatism.
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Also, you've repeatedly dissembled when challenged to address the crackpottery of his claim that Christian scientists who accept evolution are harming science education.
Berlinski stirring the pot
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It's a little crackpot, but the whole thing is so damned good-natured you can't give it much fault for being an agglomeration of genre clichés.
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Los Angeles was a sunny, easygoing mecca for crackpot religions and fantasies endorsed by the movie industry.
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These days, thanks to parents, administrators, government advisers and crackpot gurus, teachers are finding it harder and harder to have the energy to inspire anyone, even themselves.
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There are many known examples: Lagrangian theory, thermal properties, foundations of quantum formalism, unitarity, all the crackpotism about Landscape and CC, epiroktic scenarios, etc.
The String Theory Backlash
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There are votes in environmental policy, no matter how crackpot or expensive.
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Even the crackpots who vented at him received polite and gracious counter-arguments.
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The sign likened protest zones to ‘a safe haven for crackpots.’
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Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress, hopeful, estranged from her newly widowed crackpot mother - Denise, Henrys ex.
The Family Man by Elinor Lipman: Book summary
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It would be really difficult to summarize the crackpotism received from string theory authors during last decades (of course, this is not a criticism to any string theorist).
The String Theory Backlash
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However, such delusions of grandeur are not confined to crackpot monarchs.
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Luckily that shouldn't pose much of a problem for the crackpot singer in the future as she has her chequebook poised to buy her own vineyard.
The Sun
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Trump may be a cartoon blusterer, Sarah Palin a sitcom nosy 'n' sassy-neighbor-next-door, Mitt a replicant who thinks he's a real human, Ron Paul the kindly/crackpot dad from a YA series, and Huckabee the host of a Sunday morning Bible story show for kids of all ages!
Ellis Weiner: Everything Newt Is Old Again
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Then there are crackpots and malcontents, and people who have been genuinely burned by the Bahamian experience.
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I thought that I was a ‘mossback’, but the LA Weekly's Doug Harvey has now convinced me that I am a crackpot!
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And a flat earth actually sounds quite plausible compared with some crackpot theories.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Paranoia Hotline was set up specifically for such crackpot allegations you know.
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Woese called the DI's bluff and yes, you do look exactly like crackpots who claim that Einstein invalidated Newtonian physics.
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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The opposition (with difficulty prevented from making a campaign issue out of it as it was) spoke at the planetary conferences of "crackpotism" and "Waste of the taxpayers 'money.
The Martian Way
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The movie program isn't just some fly-by-night crackpot invention, either.
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Shame on the left wingers for attacking a poor six foot invisible rabbit whose only idiosyncrasy is an alleged fondness for rumpots, crackpots and ‘how are you Mr. Wilson’ comments …
Think Progress » O’Reilly Reversal: “There Is No Attack On Easter”
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Interesting to know the science and/or psychology behind the crackpots and their talking pots.
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‘They are very interested in ideas but as Edward said, not in crackpot ones,’ continued Kathy.
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Believe it or not, that's the insinuation of the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, the Arizona Democratic Party, the Arizona Republic, and countless blogosphere crackpots, some of whom have lumped Hayworth in with Malibu meshuga Mel Gibson and Gibson's tequila-fueled tirade against matzo-munchers worldwide.
Archive 2006-08-01
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As regard the later observation, my "railing" is a consequence of my active stance against anti-science crackpotism.
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today
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In fact, its wide, tri-lobe shape, which allows its body to generate lift, is the high-tech descendant of an idea that engineers, inventors, and crackpots have pursued since the Civil War.
Dirigible Dreams
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Dennis, to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes, that Constellation is a complete and utter failure, and that Shuttle C is just another crackpot rocket design by a bunch of incompentent and failed architects is doing America and NASA a great favor, not a disservice.
Today's Video: NASA Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle Concept - NASA Watch
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I seem to be the risk-free venture with certain crackpots.
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The good news is, the crackpots are planning to get together at a conference.
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The ideas range from the highly plausible to the vaguely intriguing to the obviously crackpot.
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Some were from publicity seekers and pathological liars and crackpots; some were the result of honest mistakes or overimaginativeness.
Little Fuzzy
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I know who these crackpots are and I couldn't be happier that somebody is standing up to them.
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There have always been conspiracy crackpots; nothing new there.
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But the blogosphere's tendency toward crackpot theorizing could not be suppressed for long.
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He was prone to dismiss himself as " that well - known crackpot ".
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Referring to Republican Sarah Palin and what he characterizes as the "crackpot parade," he called the situation kind of "scary.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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his rattlebrained crackpot ideas
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She wants you to believe that crackpot story because she knows something else; something that she's not willing to tell.
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These women aren't crackpots or die-hard new-agers, however.
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Of course crackpots with guns aren't a uniquely American problem.
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The bigger danger is that polls and postings that urge serious harm to President Obama fuel the climate of resonant hate and crackpotism that's deep and widespread against him.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Facebook Thinks Praying for President Obama's Assassination is Okay
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As operating devices , perpetual - motion machines are the province of crackpot science and science fiction.
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Would you do away with extra dimensional attempts at comprehension, as crackpotism?
Dark Matter and Extra-Dimensional Modifications of Gravity
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Hypnotism was to the Victorians what energy is to the New Age: a catch-all explanation for crackpot beliefs.
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Re: Calling Tolstoy a crackpot is not only nonsense, it displays moral obtusity.
Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?
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He'll be lucky to get any established writers on board with that crackpot policy.
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I hope you can strong-arm some of your crackpot political friends on her behalf," Cass said to Theodore.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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And a flat earth actually sounds quite plausible compared with some crackpot theories.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although he might not agree with my use of the term "Crackpot Christians," Kevin Phillips is certainly correct when he claims that "the radical side of U.S. religion has embraced cultural antimodernism, war hawkishness, Armageddon prophecy, and in the case of conservative fundamentalists, a demand for government by literal biblical interpretation.
Crackpot Christianity and America's Current Moral Degeneration
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You're the people who've got criminal crackpots sitting on human-rights panels.
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It's a site dedicated to ‘cranks, crackpots, kooks, and loons on the Web.’
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In the process they've become renowned as crackpot conspiracy theorists and nutters.
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Here is a typically maddening and illuminating specimen of Pasolini's sublime, crackpot antimodernism.
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Whatever the reason, London needs plenty more crackpot ideas to keep it moving.
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So the pathological crackpotism of the editorial pages has sometimes seeped into news coverage.
Matthew Yglesias » Market Failure
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People are allowed to believe whatever they like, and listen to whatever crackpot they choose.
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But Stein trots out his definition of a writer as if belonging to this group of crackpots is something to be proud of.
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You better not be going to see those crackpot friends of yours!
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It is full of absurd would-be lovers, quick-witted opportunists, cold-hearted villains and crackpot eccentrics.
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They can make even the most demented crackpots seem so… civilized.
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It wasn't me that raised this crackpot idea, was it?
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THE CLINIC WAS housed in an ancient hospital where crackpots and rummies went to calm down and dry out.
The Almost Archer Sisters
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Few understood Messiaen early on, most considering him an eccentric if endearing crackpot.
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Oh, and John Waters’s essay on showmanship is contained in CRACKPOT, not SHOCK VALUE.
Road rash: Lessons learned by an author « The Book Publicity Blog
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Israel and the U.S. already have officially rejected this crackpot theory.
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Of course, being a nutjob or crackpot is all a matter of perspective.
Waldo Jaquith - Henry Hudson lacked patience.
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But, as of now, I think this is an example of the quirky and parochial nature of Alaskan politics not translating well - just as I suggested when they first announced the pick - rather than any kind of crackpotism on her part.
The American Mind
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The circus is coming, and it has nothing to do with soleil, shriners or tormented crackpot elephants!
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And a flat earth actually sounds quite plausible compared with some crackpot theories.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am amazed that such a crackpot scheme could be seriously entertained.
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He worked for the Institute, home to various crackpots.
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I tend to think WDN is one of the crack-pottiest of the crackpots, but plagiarism is plagiarism, and why is Election Central willing to accept comments from an individual who does nothing BUT plagiarize other writers?
Palin Praises The "Energy" Of The Crowds At Her Rallies
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Even in America, the only candidate referencing the Constitution is being called a crackpot.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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And heads must obey their crackpot instructions.
The Sun
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It would be easy, but wrong, to dismiss Zhura as an unrepresentative crackpot whose defence of Stalin says little about contemporary Russian opinion.
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The resinous glow of fire and candles mingled along the edges of the Five Mystical Forms carved from polished hematite, objects of mathematical meditation which had become semisacred to one of the more crackpot schools of dog wizardry and gave a queer life to the statues of the twenty-one Old Gods, lurking like watchers among the books of what had once been their faith.
The Silicon Mage
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The problem is, you can't tell the difference and so assume every crackpot is an Emperor Norton and so why the hell not listen to them, at least it'll be fun!
9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
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We could conject that Brand heard the same rumors that Iron Man recalled "The rumor in financial circles was a crackpot named Donalbain created the costume ... and its powers ... for his own purposes" and decided to try making their own.
Character Obscura: Hellcat
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Is he some crackpot pseudo-scientist consigned to the scrap heap of history?
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You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.
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Because we are not talking about simplistic, crazy, crackpot religious fanatical elements.
A Rock and a Hard Place
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And heads must obey their crackpot instructions.
The Sun
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We wondered if our neighbors would think it was the work of crackpots.
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Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, another crackpot is preaching the exact opposite message.
Think Progress » Franklin Graham affirms concerns of critics, appears on Fox to proselytize against Muslims.
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These guys didn't get to be where they are by accepting every crackpot idea that came along.
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It's a site dedicated to ‘cranks, crackpots, kooks, and loons on the Web.’
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The reality is that every crackpot idea in the history of science has been defended on this very same basis.
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There is a difference between pathological science and crackpotism.
So Sue Me - The Panda's Thumb
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There George, who appears throughout as himself, interviews a series of crackpots and misfits.
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I can't be micromanaging every crackpot decision of a hyperactive home secretary.
