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The profanity defense.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-APR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
My mother wasn't a longshoreman.

My father wasn't a mob boss. They weren't church choir directors either, but they certainly didn't raise me to drop the F-bomb in conversation as liberally as you might sprinkle salt on french fries. Despite their best efforts, I have what can charitably be described as a potty mouth in private, which the good people I work with know only too well. The younger ones, who've grown up at a time when society's collective sensibility is a bit indelicate, are nonplussed (or at...

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