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The Importance of Profanity in Politics
I never cease to be amazed by how many different ways you can use it and how the people who use it the most often are considered in articulate, vulgar, lazy. A gramarian could spend days feasting at figuring out exactly what each usage of f*** was doing,. What's the meaning of that? I guess I'm thinking mostly public realms. And profanity amidst ceremony is always going to seem a little bit out of place except very judiciously applied. If Joe Biden says when Obamacare is being signed, this is a f***ing big deal, it's going to be considered remarkable. But where you've got things that are, especially on that fine line between salty and prof