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Protected: Students, schools, civil rights, & the f-word
One group files 99.9% of all complaints about TV content
From Christopher M. Fairman’s “Fuck” (bepress Legal Series: 7 March 2006):
The PTC [Parents Television Council] is a perfect example of the way word taboo is perpetuated. The group’s own irrational word fetish - which they try to then impose on others - fuels unhealthy attitudes toward sex that then furthers the taboo [...]
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Protected: American courts and government and the f-word
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Protected: Taboo acts and language and how they work together
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Protected: Etymologies & the dictionary definitions of the f-word
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John Berryman’s suicide note
From Steve Marsh’s “Homage to Mister Berryman” (Mpls St Paul Magazine: September 2008):
Berryman’s last words to Kate came on that January morning—he told her he was going to campus to clean his office. He had never said that before, she says, but Kate, who was attending Al-Anon meetings at the time, was trying “not to [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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Graveyard shifts and torpedo coffins
From Atul Gawande’s “Final Cut: Medical arrogance and the decline of the autopsy” (The New Yorker: 19 March 2001):
… in the nineteenth century … [some doctors] waited until burial and then robbed the graves, either personally or through accomplices, an activity that continued into the twentieth century. To deter such autopsies, some families would post [...]
Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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