kook

Terms such as 'kook', 'bigotry' and 'f-ing offensive' will not further the discussion in a positive way.

Every Usenet programming language (and some that aren't PL related) community has a troll/kook like David.

Your kook-like obsession with refusing to accept the possibility that mental illness exists is indistinguishabke from bigotry in this post.

Is it just me or is the implication here that anybody who uses PGP is usually a kook of some kind?

And when someone finally DID speak up, they were dismissed as a kook.

So yeah, going to go with the conspiracy kook option on this one.

If this is something that could be said both by a kook and a legitimate scientist working on a legitimate theory, does that not mean the statement has no deciding power?

It was a kook idea then and is still one now.

I've read a bunch of pro-slavery literature from the civil war era, and also a bunch of modern white supremacist kook literature.

Paul Krugman is a foam at the mouth kook.

Bartlet never walked in the local city parade, mingled at the 4th of July town pancake breakfast, nor had to listen to the local kook make a complaint.

Using Mega as an example of a victim only makes you look like a kook, a liar, or a moron to the people who actually need to be influenced.

You second paragraph is reasonable, but you have not supported your claim that "Paul Krugman is a foam at the mouth kook".

If you had stood up and said "I disagree, fat is good for you!" you'd be regarded as a kook.

> but your original comments were quite rude in the way you shoehorned life into a primitive idea of "voting" Actually, if you kook carefully, you'll find that I didn't introduce the idea of voting.

Well, I grew up in the culture too, and I guess I drank the Kook-Aid.

Kook, I don't need to apply such a vague pejorative.