Personally I avoid profanity in my writing, because I don't think it would add anything. But this essay illustrates that it can add quite a lot, if you know ho

Personally I avoid profanity in my writing, because I don't think it would add anything. But this essay illustrates that it can add quite a lot, if you know how to use it. Deployed with expert timing and creativity, in the context of other effective rhetoric, it conveys the depth of Simon's outrage and disgust. I still don't think I would achieve anything by peppering my comments with f-bombs, but I think he has earned them.