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By Daniel D'Addario 6/30/11 11:17am

President Barack Obama, holding in all of the swear words he knows (Getty Images)

Mark Halperin Suspended for Swearing About Obama, Who Loves Swearing

Mark Halperin’s suspension from his MSNBC commentating gig for suggesting that President Barack Obama was “a dick”–after asking for a seven-second delay for his extremely premeditated slip of the tongue–calls to mind so many recent suspensions: David Shuster’s, from MSNBC, for saying Hillary Clinton had “pimped out” her daughter Chelsea during the Read More

By admin 1/25/11 4:50pm

Twitter Maps The Nation's Propensity For Swear Words

Map geek David Huffman took a look at 1.5 million tweets from around the nation and mapped out which parts of the country are most like to swear.

This lovely graphic is the result. “Profane mountains, Polite plains” is how Huffman summed it up.

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