More on Obama’s address to public school students

The White House web site has published the text of the speech Obama intends to give to public school students nationwide tomorrow. I find nothing blatantly offensive in Obama’s remarks.  Frankly, after the outcry (and hastily revised accompanying classroom materials), it would surprise me if I did.  (I do find it interesting that the speech … Read more

Ass

We’ve lost the battle for “ass.” When I was a boy, the bad words were, roughly:  damn, hell, bastard, bitch, ass, shit, and fuck.  (And variants; asshole, shithead, motherfucker, etc.) There are peripheral additions.  There is a very nasty word for female genitalia which I shall not reproduce here, for example.  (They’re way down there, … Read more

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