I normally don’t like to just say “here’s a link, go read it,” but Charles Paul Freund’s article, In Praise of Vulgarity, is one of the best essays I have read in a very long time. Unfortunately, it is almost 9,000 words long and doesn’t lend itself well to reading on the web. Print it out and curl up with it for half an hour or check it out in the March 2002 issue of Reason.