When Terek Grozny captain Rizvan Utsyev was sent off on Sunday, Ramzan Kadyrov grabbed an announcer's microphone and shouted: "You jerk!"

BBC: Chechen leader Kadyrov sorry for stadium PA outburst

Sure, we argue with others about why our team is better, but at the end of it all, this is normally a peaceful exchange and personal attacks are left out unless you're a jerk who takes it all too seriously.

ENGADGET: This is the Modem World: Curiosity Killed the Fanboy

Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes who move in such deliberate fashion that, up close, you can see the hairs on their faces bristle and jerk.

CNN: Review: 'Mr. Fox' is fantastic

So we shouldn't be spooked by this notion that, well, is now the time to take seriously in an intelligent way, not in a knee-jerk way, the challenge of financial regulatory reform so that you don't have banks that are too big to fail and you're not putting taxpayers at risk and you're not putting the economy at risk -- now is the time to do it.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions from Senate Democrats

At worst, you use your intellect to make others feel stupid and come across as a smart jerk but a jerk just the same.

FORBES: Leaders Pay a Price for Acting Too Smart

You are bound to keep0 being inundated with clarion calls for QE3 as the knee jerk policy needed to stabilize the stock market and prevent further job losses.

FORBES: The Wishful Thinking Department of the U.S.A.