This explains a lot about Kathleen Parker:
During my own childhood, even private cursing was rare, and the third finger was something only the crudest people used to express themselves. No one I knew ever dropped the F-bomb. The worst children heard was an occasional “hell” or “damn,” usually following an incident involving a badly aimed hammer.
I’m just guessing that her father wasn’t a longshoreman. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
We seem to have a lot of these center-right columnists who think everything should be nice and polite just like their childhood. Kathleen Parker was 17 in 1968 when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, when Robert Kennedy was shot, when Mayor Daley beat the hippies down at the Democratic National Convention, and when 16,589 Americans died in Vietnam.
I guess she missed all that.
