Somebody called Carly Fiorina the “V-word,” according to Carly Fiorina. Oh no. What’s the V-word?

There's a graph that's been going around this week, showing how Americans have gotten more foul-mouthed over the past quarter-century or so:

People are cursing everywhere in public these days "without consideration." What's this world coming to?

An Auburn University professor, along with NewSouth Books, plans to release a new edition of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn with every instance of the word "nigger" replaced with "slave," hoping that will make the book more accessible.

The amount of profane graffiti in the Brooklyn Criminal Court's men's bathrooms has gotten out of control. So bad, in fact, that even the offenders are offended: "It makes it depressing to come here," one lawbreaker told the Daily News.

Thirteen year-old Kayla Manson went on the Today Show this morning to discuss being charged as an accomplice in a vicious "text rage" beating that left her friend nearly dead. They asked Kayla what the mean text messages said. Mistake.

Speaking of police brutality, we don't want to give you the impression that shocking, scary, or shocking and scary police behavior is limited to the NYPD. Far from it! How else are cops offending our sensibilities today? Many ways!

The New York Times is too prissy to mention to print the word fart on their classy website. But vintage Belgian porn? Mais oui, c'est l'art!

The Way We Live Now: Funemployed. That's the new word, really! Does it sort of make you want to get gangsters to dispose of the linguist who coined "Funemployment," then flee to live on a houseboat barge? You're not alone.

Despite everyone's whining about the FCC's regulating of Janet Jackson's nipple, dirty words, and the like, we writerly types (don't worry, we use that term loosely) should thank whomever's in charge that we don't have rules like they do in Britain, as today's Guardian reports:

Our Lexis/Nexis account has expired, so we're not one hundred per cent sure, but it looks like this is one of the first times The Times has used the word "shit" in its pages. (Or on its screens; maybe they prefer to use the web to work blue.) The occasion, of course, came during a conversation between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which the president did not know was being transmitted over a live mike: