You misspelled "rentboys"

Are you kidding? Penthouse is the magazine that tried to mainstream pee fetishism. He's all over that.

Stared dead-eyed into space, mostly.

And had muscular arms! And dressed fashionably!

Well she did make that empty promise to tackle social media bullying.

So Melania Trump has to rank at the very bottom of American First Ladies, right? Like, even below Buchanan's?

I've never thought too hard of it, but Trump's gotta smell fucking awful, right? Like, next to impossible to be in the same room with.

Pence is also the biggest coward in American politics and has been for some time. He will turn on Trump soon enough, just watch.

We had an amazing English teacher in high school who during our discussion of the evolution of the English language discuss cursing and why some words are singled out. The fact that many curses end with harsh hard sounds, ks and ts and such, was definitely pointed out.

Challenge accepted.

You're absolutely right. It is all about context.

Indiana. Where I also went to college and wove a rich tapestry of profanity that is still hanging in space somewhere over Lake Michigan.

I know you're joking, but that actually sounds kinda reasonable.

I mean, the way I look at it, teenagers swear… a lot. And they come up with really creative ones two sometimes, like twatwaffle. It's unrealistic to have an 18-year-old not curse every once and a while.

per book, per chapter?

The funny thing is, I never saw "cocksucker" as a gay slur. I thought it was just meant to be a really filthy word like "motherfucker." No one is using that word as a pejorative towards Oedipus and company. For a long time my favorite expletive interjection was " oh cocksuckermotherfucker." It was never a word I…

So I'm working on a book right now aimed at teenagers presumably. The main characters are college-aged. How much swearing is too much swearing for that age range?

I signed up for Kinja just to post on an article about my old high school. So the good news is The Wilford Brimley Explosion will carry on to some degree.

I remember when there was all that controversy surrounding Brad Paisley's stupid Accidental Racist song. He claimed he meant no harm, he was just a proud southern boy. The dude's from West Virginia, the state that actually seceded from another state to avoid betraying the Union. If he's so proud to be a West Virginian…

I bet Martinsville would love a bunch of Confederate statues.