Recession F-bombs: Why cursing feels great

It’s hard to escape news about the bombing economy these days. It's also getting harder to escape another type of explosion — the verbal kind.

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By Bruce Buschel/ New York Times

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There is still one word I can never bring myself to say in front of my mother. Even here, I'll have to punt.

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ROBERTA KAPLAN, 71, has never been a fan of tattoos. "I'm a very Jewish person," she said. "I was told from way, way back that you're not supposed to desecrate your body."

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Tattoos, once considered a counter-culture art to decorate the biceps of sailors, bikers and criminals, are showing up in the workplace. Some employers tolerate them and others draw the line.

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Comedian Dave Chappelle had a fondness for the word "@!$%#." He used it liberally in his comedy bits, even extending the racial slur to non-black people. It became a catch all handle for any and everyone. It was just an expression for him and it was one that got laughs.

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Discussing Religion and Politics

Politics... Religion... those traditional taboo topics for "polite" conversation. While politics and religion are regular topics here on the Vine, they are seldom discussed elsewhere in my life.

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Taboo 3...things you do in a motel room.

Many years ago with a long lost girlfriend we where at a motel room. She had just taken a shower and I was next. I was sitting on the bed in only my underwear.

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The Obama administration has made it clear that it has no intention of prosecuting individual CIA officers who acted in good faith under the Bush administration's torture memos, and White House advisor Rahm Emanuel stated on Sunday that the officials who devised the policy "s …

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MADELINE Kara Neumann, age 11, died of diabetes because her parents prayed rather than taking her to doctors. Caleb Moorhead, age 6 months, died after his deeply religious vegan parents refused a simple vitamin injection to cure his malnutrition.

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Excerpt: Really, isn't it enough that women in this day and age are supposed to have mind-blowing orgasms every time they have sex? Well, just when you thought you'd heard it all, along comes a movement telling us we should be experiencing climaxes during childbirth as well.

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Taboo, (come on don't be scared) part 2

From time to time something happens which makes you wake up with a smile. I am not sure if it is that I am so comfortable in my new place but, last night I drooled all over my pillow.

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Craig Ewert, a former school teacher and college professor, agreed to have his final moments filmed to "remove a veil" covering assisted suicide, Mary Ewert said.

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JIDDA, Saudi Arabia: They cannot perform in public. They cannot pose for album cover photographs. Even their jam sessions are secret, for fear of offending the religious authorities in this ultraconservative kingdom.

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Taboo: let's talk about some no, no. part 1

We all have been conditioned to keep certain thing in the closet , or rather inside of us. Things that we are not supposed to talk about, or maybe whisper them. I say no more. Here are some things that I have always taught about bringing to the open.

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Many assume that HIV primarily affects homosexual men, who are, in fact, heavily afflicted. Nevertheless, high-risk heterosexual contact was the source of 80 percent of newly diagnosed infections in women in 2006, the CDC reports.

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'Talk about taboo subjects. It seems most Americans would rather discuss their love lives with somebody they just met than how much they owe on their credit cards.

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In Pakistan, seven times as many men as women are reported to be infected with the AIDS virus, but the country's taboos about sex make it very difficult to even address the epidemic, researchers are reporting this week.

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Smooching co-workers, consuming alcoholic beverages and spreading rumors about colleagues are all considered workplace taboos, according to a CareerBuilder.com survey.

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Last week, I was filling a little dead space in my workday IM-ing with my friend Jane, a magazine editor in New York. As we discussed our careers in a way that we probably shouldn't have at our workplaces (sorry, boss!), the subject of our salaries came up.

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A review of pleasurable and perverse toys and gadgets at some of Tucson's finer storesAlthough this is a review of sex toy shops in Tucson, AZ, the sizing and gadgetry and whatnot will doubtless translate into your neck of the woods.

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"It's going to be tempting and awkward at the same time for sure," said parishioner Brent Cayson. Single men and women can't have sex for 30 days, and married couples are urged to have it every day. "If you look at studies, studies say in 30 days you can develop a habit," said  …

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Edgar Allan Poe, and Albert Einstein all married cousins. Maybe these creative geniuses were on to something. A new study suggests that mating with relatives has reproductive advantages.

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Taboo TV/Movie Hijinks and Your Childhood

I just finished reading the Dennis Hensley's commentary on MSNBC about how kids today, with the help of DVDs, video iPods and YouTube, can see anything and everything.

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''In her book "Infidel" (my review here: ), Hirsi Ali tells of how she had tried to convince the Dutch of the girls being circumcised on kitchen tables across the Netherlands. This issue is now coming to light in the UK.

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To some, it may seem like an ideal relationship, less stressful than an affair, longer lived than a fling or that elusive one-night stand. You can even sit around in your sweats and watch "Friends" reruns together, feeling vaguely reassured.

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