Word: smug
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Aliens blowing up the White House. Calling game-show contestants "Survivors." Background shots of the New York City skyline. Caring about Gary Condit's and Anne Heche's love lives. Videogame warriors blasting through ruins. Insult comedy. Smug, detached comedy. Political comedy. These are just a few more of the casualties of Sept...
...what is the meaning of this wickedness? It says, We are very, very angry at you, Americans, for your smug arrogance in the face of our desperate suffering. That is all. American military and financial might is certainly not even dented. The worldwide network of overwhelming U.S. power continues to pulsate with precision. What have these desperate people achieved apart from wanton murder? It is not only Americans they have killed. So many have perished from all kinds of diverse backgrounds who had come to work in those beautiful buildings which represented some abstract future. They have put the entire...
...those people, those preening “free thinkers” and earnest, self-congratulatory “humanitarians,” one can only ask if there is any limit to their smug, mindless detachment from the life of their country, and from the natural feelings of their fellow...
...that you can withdraw from the community if it is convenient and check back in when you want. If all parents had the necessary resources and educational background, then home schooling might approach the equality-of-opportunity standard that characterizes our nation. It fails that simple test, and the smug, self-righteous superiority of home schoolers is not the stuff that makes a great people, regardless of the test scores. Get out in the community, and work to make your public schools better! Your attitude is intolerant and mean-spirited. LON C. THOMAS JR. High Point...
...hoped--that once this family's story was known, it would be clear that the parents were checked out, maybe even uncaring, and so on some level responsible for their son's monstrosity. Now Parents Under Siege, a new book by researchers James Garbarino and Claire Bedard, challenges that smug assumption...