Word: jerkingly
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...guess explaining the enigma of Judaism to a 21-year-old who knows nothing about it (other than knee-jerk Holocaust invocations) is sort of like teaching a new language to a 40-year-old. You have to be indoctrinated while you’re young...
...know I'm being experimented on. In fact, I've read the results of these particular psych tests. But I still feel like a jerk as I dip a teaspoon into the applesauce jar yet another time and fill up a tiny saucer, trying to serve myself exactly as much applesauce as I did when I used a big spoon and a big plate. As predicted by previous results, the bigger spoon caused me to serve myself almost 15% more, the big plate 25% more. I also overestimate--by 50%--when I try to pour a shot into a wide...
...Thanks for the question, you little jerk. You're drafted.' JOHN MCCAIN, Republican U.S. Senator, responding jokingly to a Concord, N.H., high schooler's comment that at 71, McCain might be too old to serve as President...
...political calculation seems to be that the issue will do more for the party if it is simply left alone. Thus far the Republican knee-jerk reaction - to reassure the conservative base - has had the side effect of energizing gay groups. Why attack him and risk the ire of gay-rights groups when Democrats can sit back and watch the GOP eat their...
Until now. Thanks to the Health-Care Callousness Assessment Test (or HCCAT, for short)--a test I've devised as a supporter of universal coverage enacted in economically rational ways--the guesswork and knee jerk can be taken out of the equation. With three simple questions--the kind that can be dropped casually in conversation or on national TV during a debate--anyone can discern whether a Republican's approach to health care is truly pitiless or merely unsympathetic. A look at how the HCCAT scores Romney's Massachusetts plan and the health-care tax deduction just announced by Rudy...