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Is there any adjective that carries more weight than the word brazen? I'm at a loss for words.


I like the historical usage of Chutzpah, but it's become less of an insult of late:

    Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, 
    brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts', presumption plus
    arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do 
    justice to". In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong 
    disapproval and condemnation.
He Goes on:

    In the same work, Rosten also defined the term as "that quality
    enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, 
    throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an 
    orphan".   Chutzpah amounts to a total denial of personal
    responsibility, that renders others speechless and incredulous... 
    one cannot quite believe that another person totally lacks common
    human traits like remorse, regret, guilt, sympathy and insight.
    The implication is at least some degree of psychopathy in the 
    subject, as well as the awestruck amazement of the observer at 
    the display.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah#Etymology


I can think of many, but you can't print them on a family website.


Complain less, call your congressional representatives more. Email doesn't mean shit. Pick up the phone.

Then complain here =P


Is there any evidence that my call will do anything? I suspect not, but I really don't know. I've called in to my rep probably 5/6 times in my life and never once heard back or talked to anyone other than some intern.


This doesn't seem like a congress thing.

What could they even do except give comcast bad PR?

Unless you are proposing that we return to the days of telecom regulation.


That is a popular idea right now. More specifically, the president and others have tossed around the idea of regulating broadband internet under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934


Without defending Comcast et. al. I have ZERO confidence that this president and congress would come up with anything remotely beneficial to the retail/residential internet consumer.


Well then you're in luck - the FCC determines the classification of telecommunications services in the US.




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