They floated stories that Aristide was mentally deranged.

To be sure, there is something deranged about North Korea s political system.

America s fiscal policy was then thoroughly deranged much more so than it is now.

They are pathetic, deranged, and often have struggled with mental instability for much of their lives.

Holden was influential in the life of Mark David Chapman, the deranged ex Beatles fan who murdered John Lennon in 1980.

This great moderation was not anticipated when Alan Greenspan took office. America s fiscal policy was then thoroughly deranged much more so than it is now.

Economists have proposed three explanations for why macroeconomic catastrophes have not caused more human suffering and deranged long run economic growth over the past generation.

The Holocaust was born of an absurd and hallucinatory mechanism that associated the Jews with an invented congenital threat, and that gave rise to a deranged, burning, irrational hatred.

True, today s computers have not evolved to the level of the deranged chess playing HAL in the filmmaker Stanley Kubrick s masterpiece 2001 A Space Odyssey, much less Arnold Schwarzenegger like droids from the Terminator movies.

And that s before the coming deluge from generous public employee pensions and health costs. At the heart of California s problem is its deranged progressive tax system, which includes among the highest personal income, sales, corporate, and gas rates of any state.

It seems as though Americans can tolerate a society in which schoolchildren and other innocents are regularly murdered by deranged men with weapons bought on the open market, but erupt in collective hysteria when the killings are committed by people labeled as terrorists.

For all the finger pointing at Wilders, just because Breivik professed to admire him, the acts of a deranged killer, others caution, should not be used to discredit what he stands for. After all, there is nothing irrational, or murderous, about claiming that multiculturalism is a flawed ideal, or that Islam conflicts with modern Western European views of gender equality or gay rights, or that mass immigration will cause serious social conflicts.