Word: jerkingly
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Affirmative action is a flawed solution, but the refusal to acknowledge different levels of opportunity for Blacks before the college level discredits knee-jerk conservative attacks...
...keep his stand-up delivery in your head. Here he is on magicians: "What is the point of the magician? He comes on, he fools you, you feel stupid, show's over ... It's like, 'Here's a quarter. Now it's gone. You're a jerk."' And on people picking up dog poop: "If aliens are watching this through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume...
Cohen acknowledges that one of the more "irritating lessons" he learned in the course of writing the book was that "contrary to my knee-jerk response, the previous efforts to define the twenty-something generation are not completely inaccurate." Fortunately, he goes to greater lengths to challenge the "them" responsible for formulating the shaky Gen-X hypothesis. He contradicts the image of twenty-somethings as "slackers" and "whiners" not with his own philosophical treatise, but with the stories of an amazingly diverse group of young people...
...letter criticizing Lat's attack on National Coming Out Day, I intended simply to demonstrate that Lat's knee-jerk opposition to homosexuality and all its manifestations has led him to attack celebrations of diversity no different than those of Philippine Forum...
Richards may have hoped to bait Bush, who is known as thin-skinned, into a similarly disastrous gaffe; she has goaded him by crediting his business successes to "his daddy's friends," calling him "that young Bush boy" and once, a "jerk." Yet Bush has stayed calm, politely staking out positions to her right on crime, welfare and the size of government. Against this, Richards, who is said to genuinely dislike Bush, appears adrift. Says Austin political consultant Bill Miller, who has worked for both parties: "Ann Richards is in serious trouble. Bush is taking the fight...