New legislation by Anthony Portantino, a California Democrat from La Canada, endeavors to create more harmony in the state by cleaning up our spoken language.

He has said, "I've always wondered why we behave differently when grandma is watching than when we're on our own," he said, admitting that he, too, has an addiction to four-letter words.

Portantino says the California Legislature is known for laws to clean up the air and water, the first state to do so, but not the public's language.

A teenager in high school, McKay Hatch, pointed this out and formed a No Cussing Club in 1997. He believed he saw a link between foul-mouth talk and many negative public behaviors such as drug use and bullying.

Hatch traveled, spreading his message.

California lawmakers picked up his message and decided to try it.

Voila!

I agree, but recognize when pressure builds to the blow-up point, people need an acceptable way to blow off the excess steam. We need a useful way to release the pressure without using foul, evil, barn-yard or potty words, i.e. four-letter type words that offend grandmas and others.

There is a way, though, to let off that steam verbally without actual foul words. Many honest, honorable people are highly offended at the horrible things that self seeking politicians are doing to our basic laws - the U.S. Constitution.

Thus, a word we could use to express our anger and frustration with these politicians could be an emphatic "Politician!" or even more to the point, the name of one we feel is doing horrible damage to us and our Constitutional freedoms - "PELOSI!"