Today Dean Baquet called a U.S.C. professor an “asshole” on Facebook after that professor criticized Baquet’s decision, as executive editor of The New York Times, not to publish any of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting Mohammad. Full transcript after the jump.

A guy has taken the time to painstakingly analyze and rank all of the cuss words in popular rap albums from 1985-2013. The least we can do is to find out what he discovered.

In 2007, two corporate law firms merged to form Dewey & LeBoeuf, a massive global legal conglomerate that grandly collapsed in the wake of the recession. Would you believe it all started when one partner called his colleagues "fuckwad" and "little prick?"

Good morning! Two weeks ago, Police Chief Mark Kessler of Gilberton, Pennsylvania uploaded a video with a one-note message: "fuck all you libtards." After backlash, the civic leader uploaded an apology titled "Chief Mark Kessler, I'm Sorry for hurting feelings." Though that was "Sorry" with a capital "S," in this…

It's hard out there for job-seekers, we know. How can you stand out in a crowd? How do you impress an employer? What's the best way to communicate your skills and your passions? Here's our advice: don't write a cover letter that ends with the words "thanks cunt!"

The Pakistan's Telecommunications Authority has issued a list of 1,700 words it considers "offensive and obscene," and has demanded that mobile providers begin filtering them from text messages as of Monday. The list, which contains hundreds of familiar swear words as well as some truly puzzling choices, is meant to…

Joseph Lacher was the head of the largest unit of Allstate. Two weeks ago, he was abruptly fired, with little explanation. What happened, Joe?

In your angry Tuesday media column: burning bridges at the AP, Jann Wenner hates iPads, Mental Floss gets a new editor, the Hearst-Lagardere deal is closing, cussing in The New Yorker, dissected.

By nasty old New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's standards, does saying "Fuck him," twice, on video, in reference to the U.S. Attorney General, even count as a "gaffe"? Nah, it's just Crazy Carl. Oy. Let's roll the clip.

We all know that Tiger Woods likes dirty text messages, among other things. Turns out he's got a potty mouth, too! Here's video of Woods dropping multiple f-bombs on live television yesterday, after missing a putt at the British Open.

You can't keep a barracuda down. Palin, perhaps dimly conscious that she had not been in any headlines recently, decided to disdain the White House chief-of-staff (and massacre the English language) in a Facebook posting last night.

Rahm Emanuel cannot leave his office without generating a colorful anecdote involving profanity. Today's installment: Rahm went to a movie!

New York Times Dining section, today: a story about Obama and restaurants. The photo that ran in the print edition was innocuous. But the photo that ran online is totally flicking you off:

The big controversy in the UK currently involves-as you would guess-profanity charges against an animated dog. The famous (reportedly) Churchill dog is an ad icon that the English enjoy watching as he utters his unforgettable catch phrase "Oh, yes." Ha! Strangely, a ton of Brits swear that in his latest commercial,…

Let us make a profound observation: Citizens of other nations are different from those of us here in the States. They may in fact have a higher public tolerance for profanity spoken by both old and young. For example, consider this ad consisting of a gentle British granny and her grandkids re-enacting the "dick dick…