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  • No mincing words - swearing is a big deal

    01/01/2004 1:46:21 PM PST · by Holly_P · 21 replies · 349+ views
    Arizona Daily Star ^ | 01/01/04 | Jay Ambrose
    Now that John Kerry has uttered the f-word in a Rolling Stone interview, and the Federal Communications Commission has said just about any language can pass muster on broadcast TV and radio, the with-it crowd is instructing the rest of us to calm down and go with the flow. Why, everyone curses like a drunken sailor these days, according to sociology-adoring newspaper articles I've read. And anyone who makes a fuss about it, some of these articles informed me, just doesn't get it that conventions of the anti-obscenity sort have no inherent value anyway. Why, who gives a bleep if...