Word: jerks
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...write, great debates are raging here in the United Kingdom about war on Iraq. Much of the media is willfully distorting factual information in support of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, others are raising profound objections to a knee-jerk military solution to a universally-recognized problem. Only a few are looking at why such tyrants as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein emerge and seem to prosper in the world, and what factors turn villains (from our viewpoint) into heroes (from the viewpoint of many in the developing world...
...your head you feel left out or looked down on." Forget the twee lyrics; it's a taut three minutes of guitar rock that won't let go of your ear. Avril Lavigne's Complicated is power pop about a guy who's a private prince and a public jerk. Thus the complication of the title. "Life's like this," sings Lavigne with the resignation of a teen falling out of love for the first time...
...Good Girl tries to have fun with minimum-wage, dead-end America, and it does jerk some reluctant laughs out of us. On the other hand, like Chuck & Buck, the previous film by director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White, it is rather too well disposed to near psychotic behavior. Deranged souls are not necessarily holy fools. And depressed ones--however subversive--are not in the end very funny...
...great philosopher once said--or should have--that the true test of a free society is not how it treats its best citizen but how it treats its biggest jerk. You've never heard of Rodney Yoder, but he is assuredly one of America's most spectacular jerks. He is preternaturally rude. He sues people constantly. He abused the two women who put up with him. And he has allegedly written scores of letters to public figures that talk of slaughtering them in dreadful ways...
...might look more carefully at patients who may be sick or may just be antisocial. Of course, finding the line between the two is the trick. What Yoder may tell us is that we're a long way from figuring out the difference between being ill and being a jerk...