This is why minors shouldn’t vote:

This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.
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Not that police will slap cuffs on you and haul your sorry, er, butt off to jail in light of the proclamation passed Wednesday by the City Council. But you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.

“That’s one of the purposes of this,” Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of his city’s proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week. “It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse.”

The proclamation will be in effect until Friday, and then the first week of every March hereafter.

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But what’s different about the latest push to stop saying in public the words that Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton recently discovered we still can’t say on television is that it was proposed by a 14-year-old boy.

“My mom and dad always taught me good morals, good values, and not cussing was one of them,” said McKay Hatch, the founder of South Pasadena High School’s No Cussing Club, during a recent break between study hall and tennis practice.

1. Who names their kid “McKay”? Did they want him to get beat up? (I would know this. I’m a boy named “Sue,” for Christ’s sake.)

2. The South Pasadena City Council has proven its own uselessness by passing a law of no consequence, that flies in the face of the 1st Amendment, inspired by a 14-year-old who is put-off by swearing. Fuck them and him.

3. The word is “curse,” goddamn it. “Cuss” is a derivative, colloquial form of the word “curse” that is more offensive to my ears than “fuck,” “shit,” or “douchebag” could ever be.

4. You can tell someone, “proceed to fellate yourself whilst being sodomized with a jagged-edge of a broken coke bottle by your mother who wears comfortable shoes” without using any foul language. If you’re going to be so asinine to attempt to “elevate the level of discourse,” by restricting speech, at least have the common sense to ban ideas, not just words.

More on the absurdity of the anti-swearing assholes here:

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