Shame?

Apparently there is no shame any longer....

The mayor of Detroit, amid all these shenanigans, has the temerity to speak to his constituents from a church--from a church! Then, his wife comes on to ask for support for Hizzoner--his wife!

And, yet again, I read in the Free Press, "The Morning Friendly," a family newspaper, curse words. I wrote to the reporter who used the direct quote, but harbor no illusions that anything will come of it. The past half dozen or more such protests met with no responses and, obviously, no change of policy. I said, yet again, that my rule might well be that I would write nothing, not even a direct quotation, in my column/story that I wouldn't say in front of my young children (or grandchildren) or my mother and father.

Apparently, in my older age, I have become a Victorian prude! Yet, look at all of the difficulties we are having socially in our culture. No, I'm not a member of the Christian right. But I think that there are standards of decency that shouldn't be "dumbed down."

Just one man's lonely opinion.