Word: jerkingly
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...movie. By then, Murder has cast him as a persecuted working stiff. "Say 'nigger,' Detective Fuhrman!" a rich kid taunts him, as if teasing the help. The true star of the movie is Fuhrman's sense of grievance: against the media, other cops, the rich--against any snotty jerk who thinks he's better than Mark Fuhrman...
...Staff should tuck its tail between its legs and seriously reexamine its own knee-jerk liberal ideology. Massachusetts voters soundly rejected the “visionary, progressive stances” of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shannon P. O’Brien, whom the Staff endorsed. Republican victories in Massachusetts and across the nation suggest that the Staff’s unfailingly leftist values are seriously out of touch with those of the voters...
...have to turn Harvard students away,” he said. “It makes me feel like a jerk...
...free candy ’cause they’re wearing a cape and a Batman mask. All of a sudden it’s cool to wander the neighborhood begging for food, and if you don’t give them anything, you’re a jerk. Well, that’s crap. I say you kids are the jerks for making me get up every 15 seconds. Any other night, you could call the cops and have the little ruffians taken away. But one year I did that and now the neighbors don’t speak...
...jarring that these stereotypes go unquestioned on a campus that prides itself on its diversity and tolerance. Speaking out against such unthinking bigotry often elicits a knee-jerk response, usually featuring phrases like “politically correct” and “thought police,” and the accusation of having no sense of humor. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out where the line is between trying to spice up the party scene and being culturally insensitive. But it’s also true that if we need to get our jollies from making...