Word: jerk
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...group of Microsoft employees, JPod is full of visual humor (the listed ingredients in Dorito chips) and pages of numbers (the first 100,000 digits of Pi). He spoke to TIME's Rebecca Myers about Google, his bridge between art and words, and why Douglas Coupland is such a jerk...
...DIED. Jean-Fran?ois Revel, 82, witty, influential French philosopher and journalist who tweaked European intellectuals for their knee-jerk anti-Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book Without Marx or Jesus argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Acad?mie Fran?aise, which defends the standards of the French language, Revel recently disparaged his countrymen, declaring: "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi ... [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving their vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George...
DIED. Jean-François Revel, 82, witty, influential French philosopher and journalist who tweaked European intellectuals for their knee-jerk anti-Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book, Without Marx or Jesus, argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Académie Française, which defends the standards of the language, he recently rebuked his countrymen, saying, "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving vitriol "for Ronald Reagan...
...have the heart to love you, not the way that you want me to,†and decides he can no longer be friends with you (either explicitly or implied by his actions), you do not want to be “friends†with such a jerk anyway. You will still be emotionally attached to him for awhile, but he does not deserve your tears. A true friend who is not interested will acknowledge your feelings and will continue platonically loving you as before...
...DeLay: I was baptized when I was 12 and immediately walked away from him. (Laughs) And did not walk with him until I got in Congress. When I was elected to Congress, I was a self-centered jerk. Representative Frank Wolf, a Republican of Virginia, had a ministry. He would go to door to door to each freshman. He'd come in and talk to you and invite you to a Bible study and show you a James Dobson video called, "Where's Daddy?" And every bad thing that he was talking about was me. And it really...