And any excessive state tax withholding, when deducted on federal income tax returns, could easily throw them into the wacko federal alternative minimum tax.
Yet Brubeck's music was never really about its intellectual content, or driven by purely musical concerns even when the bandleader enjoyed amazing commercial success with a fruitful string of albums devoted to exploring the concept of wacko time signatures.
Whatever the reason, the smiling fellow who waved his South Korean counterpart goodbye at week's end was already looking less like a wacko in search of a weapon of mass destruction and more like a grandfather in search of a hug.