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Linguistic CHUTZPAH
Given how much I relish not only the concept of chutzpah but also the linguistic foundations of the word itself, one can understand the frisson I experience at the prospect of a Chutzpah of the Week award presented on linguistic grounds. The recipient...
Foreign Spending Begins At the Border
Never underestimate the power of the United States Government to convolve its logic to a level of FUBAR proportions. Consider the following BBC News report, which appeared on their Web site this afternoon: The US government is to start charging UK...
CHUTZPAH Over ‘CHUTZPAH’
I received an interesting piece of electronic mail from a friend who is greatly interested in Friedrich Nietzsche and wanted to respond to my efforts to compare him with Slavoj Žižek. In concluding her argumentation, she provided the disclaimer...
The Will to Polemic
I sometimes think that one of Slavoj Žižek missions is to confound the efforts of anyone who tries to make sense of his writings, his interviews, his lectures, or any other of his “performance media.” So Brian Dillon deserves plenty...
Keep the Torch Burning
There is something to be said for keeping the case of the Israeli assault on the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish vessel trying to carry humanitarian aid for Gaza through the Israeli blockade, in the public eye, particularly when Israel has decided not to...
Vatican CHUTZPAH
Pat Brown, from the group Catholic Women’s Ordination, called it “a slap in the face to women;” and I suspect that her relatively moderate choice of words was appropriate for a practicing Catholic. From my point of view, however,...
Chaos CHUTZPAH?
This has not really been a slow week, but it is one in which many of my thoughts about music seem to have taken priority over my thoughts of chutzpah. Thus, in reviewing the week, I realize that I probably could have assigned my Chutzpah of the Week...
Recognizing Marcy Kaptur’s CHUTZPAH (finally!)
According to my records, Marcy Kaptur’s only Chutzpah of the Week award is shared with 56 of her progressive colleagues (one of whom, of course, was Dennis Kucinich). This was for a letter to Nancy Pelosi written about a year ago concerning...
