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[nohil-billy]

I posted this a long time ago, and then reposted it to make a point on another thread. It would be appropriate to post it once again here.

Found this article in the Scrapbook section of the March 12th edition of the Weekly Standard.

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This may or may not come as a surprise, but there's more profanity on "The Internets" than in traditional media. Lots more. The enterprising blogger Patrick Ishmael ([LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This No Hillary For President Forum Link. ) did an, excuse the pun, quick and dirty analysis of the ideological divide in online trash-talking. Make that, ideological chasm. He did a Google search for comedian George Carlin's famous "seven dirty words" on popular lefty and righty blogs. Lefty Daily Kos took top honors with 146,000 pages containing one or more of the words in question. Its lefty competitor, The Huffington Post, was close behind with 109,000. No right-wing site reached even 10,000 on the Carlin scale.
A commenter at the site refined the methodology to account for overall site size, finding a "'7 words' to pages" ratio of "1 profanity every 2 pages" for Daily Kos and "1 every 121 pages" for the Free Republic ("the foulest" of the righty sites). The study "isn't scien tific," Ishmael warns, "but hey, it's pretty @*%#$&! close."

We use mild expletives on this site and at times we get more than a little suggestive, but we don't need to be like them to get our point across. My Division Officer in the Navy once told me that, "vulgarity is something we use when we run out of interesting things to say."

We're better than that.