Loving your use of the word "kook". I remember the tv detective show that started its use...
Of course, the character was pretty lovable, if a little incompetent.
I wonder if anyone under the age of thirty knows it. 

Writing of incompetence and Florida Tempests, if anyone doesn't think that Florida politics stinks to high heaven, wait until Florida adopts vote by mail for federal elections. There will be such a sea change from Republican to Democratic...
Unfortunately the sea change will be resulting from climate change and the loss of a large part of the coast...

Hugh Massengill, Eugene