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Finally. I have been searching for just the right article to send to my UV friends, family, associates and young readers to hopefully snap them out of it. Yet, alas, I cannot.

Once again, an otherwise gifted writer has demonstrated an inability to use words to make certain points and thus resorted to the crutch of vulgarisms (In this case, just once, of course) and because he thinks it makes him appear more adult and serious but it is actually just the opposite. This is unfortunate.

You are better than this. Grow up.

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I'm not here for "appearances" or I wouldn't be anonymous. Subjective "vulgarisms" aside since you know these people you probably have the words you're looking for in you. There will be no perfect article to 'snap them out of it'. It's been two years now.

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Yes, I have the words, but they dismiss me. Its nice to have some backup from someone with a platform. Yes, there will be no one article, but hopefully the effect of many is cumulative.

Regards vulgarisms, I know what words to say when I hit my thumb with a hammer but wouldn't use them in a serious article on a public platform.

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Sometimes the vulgarisms have a place and serve a purpose, and I admit sometimes they don't work. My next piece will be more measured and tame and might be more persuasive and useful. I think I needed to get this out of my system first after the demonizing coordinated rhetoric of world leaders lately.

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Your frustration with this coordinated rhetoric is completely understandable.

As Kipling wrote: If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...

I look forward to reading your next article.

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