If someone were to come up with a Manual of Style for general blogs, the section on Word Choice would probably be quite short: "Say whatever's on your mind, Fitzgerald."

However, we (I) propose that Legal Blogs should be held to higher standards, especially when it comes to choosing the appropriate syntax. After all, we're supposed to be wordsmiths. If people come to regard Legal Blogs as beacons of clarity in the murky world of Laws and Justice, word choice is a very real issue.

At a very basic level, superfluous cuss words should be edited from your posts prior to posting -- unless they are an integral part of your soliloquy or quoted directly from a defendant in a criminal proceeding.

Most likely, if you operate a legal blog, you are a highly educated person. Your words should not belie your hard-earned investment. If you want to talk trash, get a side blog and adopt a cool street moniker.