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Swimming naked: A declaration of independence
Submitted by Elizabeth on 30 June 2009 - 6:02pm 
It's almost Independence Day weekend in the United States and so I am making my own very specific declaration of independence. In honor of "the personal is political" and in honor of Independence Day (and because I happen to have a very recent photo of me swimming naked near an American Flag) I want to make a simple declaration: I need to be free to swim naked. I dislike the confinement of swimsuits. They cling and bind and besides, other than wet t-shirt contests, why would anyone put on clothes specifically to get them wet? We take off wet clothes! Why put something on to go in the water?
Chutzpah!
Submitted by Chris on 21 September 2008 - 5:49pmThe classic example of chutzpah, the Yiddish word for brazen gall, is that of a man who, after being convicted for killing both his parents, throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he's an orphan. Everyone in every culture in the world has experienced chutzpah, but to my knowledge, only Yiddish nails it so precisely. The beauty of so many Yiddish words is that you don't have to actually know what they mean to understand them completely when used. Yiddish is one of the most emotionally onomatopoetic languages ever invented.
Another example of chutzpah that rivals even the archetypal parricide is that of the Chassidic Jews in Brooklyn who've recently gotten into a snit because "scantily clad" women ride their bicycles on the bike routes along the bike paths on the streets running through the South Williamsburg area:
Another example of chutzpah that rivals even the archetypal parricide is that of the Chassidic Jews in Brooklyn who've recently gotten into a snit because "scantily clad" women ride their bicycles on the bike routes along the bike paths on the streets running through the South Williamsburg area:
