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Westminster has long faced protests from animal rights activists who view the competition as a deplorable canine beauty contest fueling faddish puppy buying and reckless breeding.

Chess has always been something of a faddish sport, said David Mehler, president of the U.S.

He was anti-theory at a time when graduate students in the arts and humanities could not afford to be oblivious of Foucault, Derrida and the army of faddish post-modernists.

He’s not at all pleased at the idea of being put out to pasture by a guy with a faddish geometric haircut.

He derided the “faddish theory that racial discrimination may produce educational benefits.”