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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (125079)	11/18/2009 9:25:37 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542832

Nutjob need not only be applied to people who are not functioning. The term is very properly applied to people who have nutty ideas. Folks who think they've had sex with aliens are, imo, nutjobs- at least on that issue. And it is perfectly appropriate to call someone so afraid of homosexuals a nutjob if she thinks you can "teach" someone to be homosexual. All the research to date shows the proclivity is established very early (probably in utero, due to hormone exposure). I think it's fair to call someone so out of touch with science a "nutjob". Some cultural "norms" are nutty- at least if you assess nuttiness, as some of us do, based on one's contact with reality as it can be expressed by objective measurable data.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (125079)	11/19/2009 3:39:05 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542832

>>What is "normal" is relative to what the "norm" is. I am not necessarily agreeing with Bachmann's stance on these issues. All I'm saying is...that relative to her cultural "norm" she's normal. Obviously that's not your cultural norm. In any case, criticize her all you want for her political/cultural stands, but don't dismiss her by calling her a "nutjob". That terminology, IMHO, should be used for someone who has trouble functioning. << Vinter - I don't have a problem with her opinions or her stances. Or rather, I'm not calling her a nutjob because of them. It's her insistence on creating her own facts that troubles me. I think it's nutty to create your own facts. I would say that a person who can't stick to reality, and instead goes off on paranoid tangents about her own invented scenarios when discussing an issue is having trouble functioning. When one reads transcripts of her radio and television appearances, one is struck by how often she seems to lose track in the middle of a sentence, coming out with some pretty garbled stuff. That's another example of having trouble functioning. - Allen