You're such a jerk.

I'll do that, then I'm gonna jerk off.

And I thought, Do I tell this jerk to quit it?

There will only be a single jerk, and they will gape,

There will only be a single jerk, and they will gape,

Ever since that Jayson Blair jerk ruined it for all of us.

I would be a jerk and not tell you what it is, but in fact, it's Central African Republic.

So to remind you of physics, you have position, derivative, velocity, then acceleration, and then comes jerk and then comes snap.

Want to kill that cyclist on the way to work, and string up your cousin 'cause she's such a jerk. Oh, dear.

Instead, we had taken first steps together, past our knee jerk reactions, to the ubuntu place, which is the only place where solutions to our most intractable seeming problems will be found.

If we don't take action, we just leave ourselves open to have someone else jerk the strings that tie us to slavery in the products we buy, and in our government policies.

If today s globalization continues to widen income gaps, the waves of migration will grow. So the rich world will, in a knee jerk response, erect ever higher barriers to stem the human tide.

The National Transitional Council refuses to make difficult decisions, instead palming them off to a future elected government. The NTC has preserved much of the institutional paralysis and knee jerk behavior typical of Colonel Muammar al Qaddafi s overthrown regime.

That is why a knee jerk, simplistic Washington Consensus prescription of more liberalization and privatization is inappropriate for the Arab world in 2012. There is a clear political need for a growth strategy in which inclusion is the centerpiece, not an afterthought.

The Lebanese front may ignite if Hezbollah seeks to avenge Mughniyah s death, or simply as a result of a knee jerk reaction to a provocation, as in 2006. If Iran and Syria then decide to back Hezbollah, a direct Israeli Iranian showdown could follow.

It will allay the growing tensions between Christianity and Islam fueled by international terrorism and knee jerk nationalism. Unlike the war on terrorism, European integration can serve as a model for resolving the underlying crises of the Middle East and addressing the roots of violence in the wider region.

North Korea s missile launch, coming amid the internal uncertainty arising from Kim Kyong hui s failing health, creates an extremely dangerous situation for the international community. Only by strengthening UN sanctions to such an extent that North Korea is forced to abandon its missiles and nuclear weapons and China to reconsider its knee jerk support can the regime be dissuaded from further, and more ominous, maneuvering.