For someone who spends as much time cursing as I do, I'm not sure why I got so bent out of shape by the most recent vulgar public utterance of a public official.
I think it has something to do with the forum. We all have our moments and blurt out things we likely regret. Most of us try to limit those outbursts to private settings.
When they're done in public - in particular by public officials - they add to what is an increasingly coarse public dialog.
I talked about it in the blog yesterday.
Today I am adding the voice of our editorial page against this slow decline toward the lowest common denominator.
It's simple. We're better than that.
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