Reader loves the blog, but...

Dear Concerned Citizens,

I felt I should write to you to tell you how much my family and I appreciate the valuable service you are providing to the community of Kearney. Without the Blog, it is certain that many of the issues before us would have gone unreported and without public awareness it is certain our situation in the Town of Kearney would be far dire.

We, as a family, enjoy the humour and satire that makes the bad news a little more palatable.  But, because we share the Blog with all members of the family, including the young, we are a little concerned with some of the vulgarity that is used. We also think the vulgarity takes away from dignity and value of the service the Blog provides for us.

So we ask, please continue to investigate, analyze, and probe, the deeds of our Mayor, our Council, and the general happenings in the Town of Kearney. But out of respect for your readers, your many followers, and the value of the service you provide, we feel you can still interject humour and satire while preserving a higher level of decorum.  

Sincerely from some of your most avid readers.

Please do not publish my name

Thank-you.

While we restrict our vulgarity to the level currently available on prime-time television, we'll admit that our blog can be PG-13 at times. Having said that, we also believe in self-censorship and don't recommend our blog to anyone under 13. We would actually be surprised if the 12-and-under crowd took any interest. We try not to be overly gratuitous and certainly avoid George Carlin's famous Seven Words You Can't Say On Television, although shit has been used on a number of network shows such as Chicago Hope, ER, and NYPD Blue. And piss is no longer considered vulgar unless referring to a bodily fluid (e.g. Don't piss me off).

Sometimes what needs to be said just needs to be said. Mayor Tomlinson has clearly demonstrated that he's an asshole. There's no milder word for it. We could call him a jerk or a meanie but that would just come off as silly. We could write it as A-hole or sh*t, but anyone old enough to want to read the blog will automatically think asshole or shit, so we'll take ownership of it and just say it.

We apologize to our older readers who might be offended by our moral decline, but we're sure their parents and grandparents were just as scandalized when a married woman was seen speaking to another man while unescorted. Or a young lady was flashing a little too much ankle. Or if a coloured person didn't sit at the back of the bus. Times change and what was once vulgar is no longer, and some of what was proper is now considered vulgar. All that remains constant is ethics.

So thank you for your opinion and your compliments and we hope you will remain an avid reader, but you are always free to change the station.