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CHUTZPAH Unregarded
I see I made it through last week without ever saying anything about a Chutzpah of the Week award. Clearly, this has nothing to do with chutzpah going on a decline. Rather, it is simply a matter of a shift in my attention. Now that Examiner.com...
Profiles High And Low
I have been toying with the idea of a Chutzpah of the Week award for Anya Kushchenko (better known as Anna Chapman) ever since she was deported from the United States on grounds of espionage. We tend to think of spies as keeping the lowest possible...
Threatening with CHUTZPAH?
I realize that it is a bit late in the week to announce the Chutzpah of the Week award; but I have been busy (sufficiently so that I may have to explain more in a later post). However, even where chutzpah is concerned, good things come to those who...
Artistic CHUTZPAH
Yes, I know it is really early in the week; and thinking about the Chutzpah of the Week award runs the risk of being premature. However, this one is too good to resist for a variety of reasons. It concerns a recent decision made by Mike Leigh...
The CHUTZPAH of Judiciary Activism
First it was Chief U. S. District Judge Vaughan Walker, who earned himself two Chutzpah of the Week awards, one for his handling of the challenge to the Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage and the second over abuses of civil liberties in the name of...
A Reality Check in the Face of CHUTZPAH
I doubt that yesterday’s Chutzpah of the Week award had anything to do with the recent turn of events over the question of who will pay for the damages brought on by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) gas-line explosion in San Bruno....
CHUTZPAH And the Chain of Command
If the Department of Defense has not been having enough problems coming from WikiLeaks, a BBC News story filed this morning has brought attention to another thorn in their bureaucratic side. That thorn is Anthony Shaffer, former Lieutenant Colonel...
The CHUTZPAH of Raw Hatred
Today’s news forced me to reconsider the question of whether or not wit figures significantly in determining an act of chutzpah. It reminded me that there are definitely times when chutzpah is fundamentally about the demonstration of some form...
