Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning audacity, gall, brass, impudence, and colossal nerve. The classic example of chutzpah is the old story about a man who murdered both his parents and then asked the court for mercy because he was an orphan. Let me offer you a few recent items that, in my opinion, are examples of chutzpah.
Everybody needs — and probably deserves — a vacation. My country is almost $17 trillion in debt and my president, who doesn’t care how much money he spends as long as it’s not his, took a vacation on taxpayers’ cash to the tune of $100 million. I call that chutzpah with a capital chutz.
Ariel Castro kidnapped three women, held them captive for 10 years, raped them, beat them, held them in chains, caused the unlawful termination of one of the woman’s pregnancies by beating her in the stomach, and on and on go the charges. This miserable, rotten poor excuse for a human being was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. If that’s not chutzpah I don’t know what is.
After a plea deal was arranged and Castro began serving time, he paid for his mega-sins by hanging himself in his cell. As one reader put it, “The clanging you heard was the sound of the gates of hell closing behind Castro as he entered down below. My only regret is that this pile of human waste didn’t suffer enough before leaving this earth.”
Well stated. Wish I said it first.
Sen. Schumer tells us that Obamacare is really good for us, yet neither he nor his staff is on it. Chuck, you got some chutzpah.
Delta Airlines intends to make the onboard toilets smaller so that the company can squeeze four more seats in coach. Aren’t those toilets small enough already? The toilets are small. The seats in coach are small. The only thing Delta has that is large is chutzpah.
Brian Holloway is a former National Football League star who was living in his primary residence in Florida when he learned that his upstate New York home was trashed. When two to three hundred high school students partied the entire Labor Day weekend in his house without permission they broke windows, destroyed his carpets, poked holes in ceilings, and caused more than $20,000 in damages. These very less-than-bright youngsters actually took photos of each other and posted them all over the Internet. By inspecting these pictures, Mr. H. was able to have many of the kids identified and has placed their names on a website he created.
Thinking that some of the youngsters involved may not be able to get into a decent university, several parents are considering hiring a lawyer to bring a lawsuit against Holloway. That’s chutzpah. I am StanGershbein@Bellsouth.net telling the mommies and daddies, instead of being so concerned about your son’s career in college, you should give more thought to your son’s possible career in prison.
