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Tonight's episode of Modern Family promises to make bowties twirl on the necks of their scandalized viewers when a pint-sized character drops the F bomb. One group is so offended by little Lily's linguistic lapse that they're spearheading a grassroots effort to prevent the episode from airing. Who are these bastions of righteousness? They're called The No Cussing Club, and they're here to show you poopheaded pottymouths what fun a bleep-free existence can be. Fuck that. More »
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Things are never that serene inside a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant, what with all the overstimulated children running around and all, but things got especially wild at a Chuck E. Cheese in Dearborn, Michigan, yesterday when a brawl broke out during a birthday party. More »
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The Supreme Court's about to hear a case that will determine whether or not network TV and broadcast radio can finally be freed from the shackles of decency requirements. Thanks in part to expletives uttered by the likes of Cher and Nicole Richie, networks may soon be held to the more lax standards of their cable brethren. Who knew that The Simple Life had such noble intentions for the First Amendment? More »
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A young cousin of mine was fairly sheltered as a small child. His parents didn't let him watch violent movies or play with gunlike toys, and aggressive behavior wasn't tolerated. To work around this, when he became very upset, he'd mimic a gesture he'd learned from Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story wherein he'd bend his wrist downward, point his forearm at whoever or whatever had offended him, and firmly press his opposite index finger to a patch of flesh about 6 inches past his hand, as though he were shooting a wrist laser. Once his mother realized what the gesture meant, she told him that trying to shoot people to death with imaginary lasers was not a nice thing to do. It was his little toddler Fuck You. More »
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We've all been caught cursing in inappropriate situations (sorry Mom). But how do you recover from this embarrassment, and avoid it in the future? And are there situations when cursing is actually a good idea? Today we answer these questions and more. More »
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Soccer referees are supposed to penalize players who curse at them. But they don't always — and a new study shows they're more likely to crack down on certain swear words than others. More »
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This print from Modern Toss (click to enlarge) provides a handy guide to British curses. That said, Americans may need a translation for "stink like a piss ceefax" and "acting like a cock snake on plant food." More »
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To demonstrate the dangers of distracted driving (today's the Awareness Day or whatever for that), Meredith participated in a simulation, wherein she inadvertently crashed her fake car and yelped, "Shit!" (The segment aired again later, with "shit" removed. Morning-television morals!) More »
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In today's Daily Mirror: "Curb Your Enthusiasm star Susie Essman has revealed fans are always approaching her and begging her to shout and swear at them." We suggest Susie direct them them here. [Mirror, Earlier] More »
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There are some things you learn from your parents, and some things you learn from your books. But there are other things that are straight playground education, like the word "dipshit" and the grand gesture that is "the finger." More »
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• According to a recent poll, 82% of those who think Obama is the Anti-Christ also think Sarah Palin is a swell broad. True/Slant proposes a new name for these right-wing wingnuts: Anti-Christers. • More »
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F-bombs may be therapeutic: volunteers were able to keep their hands in a tub of ice-cold water for longer if they repeated "a swear word of their choice" than if they chanted an inoffensive word. [Reuters] More »
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When I was a freshman in high school, I decided to break myself of cursing. My strategy: for every bad word I said during the day, I would have to write a sentence in my journal at night. More »
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• Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided that the entire Democratic caucus will vote next week whether Independent Senator Joe Lieberman will keep his seat as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee after having back John McCain and gone negative against Obama. [TPM Election Central]
• How negative did Lieberman really go? There's a video to count the ways. [Politico]
• And both the Clintons swear that — despite leaked reports that rather obviously came from Lieberman's camp — they aren't pushing to keep Lieberman at Homeland Security or in the caucus. [Politico]
• Racist Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, who, according to the Constitution represents all the citizens of Georgia regardless of their race, knows the reason he didn't avoid a run-off election because not enough of "his" people turned out. You know, white people. That always vote for the white guy. Because they're white. [Think Progress]

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There's a really motherfucking long article in the New Scientist all about swearing that we read so that you don't have to. Some of the shit we discovered in the article was pretty damn interesting. It turns out that the use of curse words can be explained by science and evolution and how our brains work. So what the hell does this bullshit have to do with us? Well, in the past men cursed more than women, but according to research conducted by a British linguist who studied the conversation patterns of people on MySpace, it seems that women have finally obtained equality in one respect: Their dirty fucking mouths. More »
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