A Fucking Great Article

In a fucking great article on the history of the use of the "F-Bomb" Washington Post writer Joel Achenbach celebrates its power and mourns its overuse.

We must not overharvest the swear words that are part of the commons of our language. It is an adults-only commons, of course. Kids need to be told that they still can't use it. How can a 13-year-old be transgressively vulgar with the word if his 5-year-old sister already uses it? This word is supposed to be a reward of adulthood. We have to conserve it, so that our children and our children's children can use it when we're gone.

Now, that's a conservation campaign I can get behind. Fuck the whales, save the F-Bomb!