excellent education if you don't use it to come up with some original,
creative, elegant, and devastating insults? Calling someone "psychotic" is
banal, really.
Perhaps, and it's not a term of abuse I use except in casual conversation. But in some cases the shoe fits, as with David Irving.
Oh, btw, I asked Hannah (age 10) if I was uncool, and she said yes. I said why, and it's because I listen to jazz. Janis, my wife, her mom, is less uncool, because she also listens to Irish and Scots folk music--J plays the Irish concertina. Hannah, you have to understand, plays Celtic harp.
--jks