Word: jerk
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...blame. As to what the biggest mistake of his life was, McCain reminded voters of the Keating Five scandal. George W. Bush blithely cited his trade of Sammy Sosa. McCain's book is a signed confession of his sins--being a spoiled brat at Episcopal High School, a jerk at the Naval Academy and a show-off flyboy at sea--until he was forced to grow up in a Hanoi prison...
...reminding you about that problem set you forgot to turn in last Friday. Dinner comes next and only later that evening do you remember your long-neglected laundry, returning to find that some equally courteous person has dumped your wet clothes on that puddle of goo--what a jerk, couldn't he tell that it wasn't water?--and your dried clothes have returned to the dust-bunny lair from whence they came...
...trying to give the more down-to-earth vibe. I'll go to the mall, and I'll have 20 minutes to do Christmas shopping, and I just won't have time to be a celebrity. But people will hoard around me, and think I'm a jerk because I simply don't have time to sign autographs. I want to be like, dude, I only have 20 minutes to shop...
...friends around the country called and said, 'Don't let 'em get to you,'" he says. "Right or wrong, there is a knee-jerk perspective that it is very much to the left...
...buzz topics. It means giving up some of the straightforward emotionalism that makes the kind of "identity liberalism" that I initially confessed was so personally satisfying. If political discourse at Harvard and beyond is going to serve to refine liberal ideology, raising it above the frequent epithets of "knee-jerk" and "bleeding-heart," then liberals need to be wary of the assumptions we share with each other. This is, after all, a good rule for conservatives and liberals alike--although these assumptions function differently in the two communities. In the end, I suppose, it just comes back to the importance...