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A few things in one of our fabulous link mash-ups:

Hobbs says this is a bad idea. Seems to be a bad idea to me too. When I saw this article this morning I shook my head.

More on the Army Secretary being out. The Washington Post is using the word fired. No joke.  We need to take care of our wounded soldiers. Enough said.

This from Editor and Publisher :

The Post’s Dana Milbank, in a column for the Saturday paper, observed: “Ann Coulter used an anti-gay slur to describe John Edwards (the line drew applause) and asked: ‘Did Al Gore actually swallow Michael Moore?’ When a questioner asked Coulter why she praises marriage but broke off so many engagements, she responded by calling the questioner ugly.”

This is rich. The Anti-Olbermann blog shuts down because after bashing him, they said they did him more good than harm. Milking it for all it’s worth.

Sean Braisted has an update on the liquor legislation by Shea Flinn being sent into committee here in the Volunteer State.

Aunt B. has new digs.

And there is a new coffeehouse in Hooterville that is called Baroque DX. Now say it again. Now say it again. Yeah, the T-shirts have the way you say it actually on them. Scout has more. I’m weird, I just like black coffee. Good, hot black coffee. (with Kahlua isn’t bad or Jameson’s but only in real cold weather. I’m a beer girl.)

With all the talk this week about liberal blogs being filled with profanity made me take pause. Do I do this?  I have been known to drop the F-bomb, I’m not saying I haven’t but I don’t recall it going on the blog. I guess I’m more of the Colbian school of this but I have sworn on other people’s sites.

Yup, I have.

I have a fine sailor mouth,(You should hear Homer. She has made it an art form) but of course, Big Daddy and various folks from Hooterville read this blog. I’ll cuss when I want to and I am partial to saying damn. I have know problem saying the words that use the word that is “fornication under carnal knowledge.” And yeah, I have dropped shit the s-bomb a few times.

I tried to be thoughtful about this. I really did. I have dropped a word or two but nothing that I think I would make people run for the hills. Sharon Cobb made a comment over at Hobbs’ place about Dick Cheney dropping the F-Bomb a couple of years back and that got me thinking.

Then, I hear about that Ann Coulter called John Edwards a “faggot” at a conservative conference and it seems to me this whole conversation lost its relevance. But Edward’s folks sent out an e-mail that was in my box this morning writing about it so I’m assuming his team is busy addressing it head on. She also said this “Our blacks are better than their blacks” and I guess she was talking about Republican African-Americans are a step up from Democratic African-Americans. She also called Barack Obama as “B. Hussein Obama.

*sigh*

So, I think this argument of trying to put people with different political philisophies in a box is just a distraction.

Listen, I would rather my nieces drop a dirty word here and there than call people ugly words and automatically say something is stupid just because they don’t understand it.

Yeah, we try to teach them not to cuss because that’s what you’re supposed to do and we try not to swear in front of them but it happens. But being ugly doesn’t have to have a swear word attached to it. And I think the word “faggot” is pretty damn ugly if you ask me. I think perpetuating the Obama “Hussein” thing was another non-subtle dig.

That’s just me.