I was raised in a devout but non-legalistic home. There was a stretch in grade school and junior high when I swore like the sailor who made other sailors blush. Even today, there are one or two of the lesser expletives that escape my lips on rare occasions. I enjoy sharing a glass of wine, a beer, or a Long Island Iced Tea with friends, or (more rarely) a cigarette or two. I laugh at crude jokes, enjoy high school gross-out movies much more than I should, and find the florid foul language of some movie and TV characters hilarious. I’m not saying I find these things harmless. Not at all. But I do find them funny. While I’m no rebel, I’m no Ned Flanders either.
So it’s with some curiosity that I find myself concerned by Adam Mansbach’s book, “Go the F*** to Sleep!”
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