Bad Craziness

Clare mentioned David Brooks's recent strange column [T$] in an earlier comment, in which Brooks presents a strong defense of Hillary Clinton.

Now there's an item even more bizarre: Richard Mellon Scaife, after spending millions of dollars and most of the 1990s hounding the Clintons, has apparently "had a rethinking" and now believes "Clinton wasn't such a bad president. In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways …"

I am unsure whether to quote Hunter Thompson or Airplane here, so I'll give both:

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

and:

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.