http://www.elisemcveigh.com/Default.aspx?TabId=64&rssid=1&categoryid=1 Manners and our public figures – it is not going very well the past few weeks, is it? As the public has spoken out this week, I am concluding that you do not have to be a manners expert to be disgusted with the behavior of today’s celebrities. What I am concluding is there is not a problem with just celebrities, but a problem with the way we are raising our children. Let’s start with the U.S. Open tennis championship. Serena Williams loses her cool as she is losing her match, and tells the official who issued her a foot fault that she is going to shove tennis equipment down her throat. (This is censored for our younger readers.) Then you have men’s tennis champion Roger Federer questioning officials during his U.S. Open match, and according to the tennis commentator, this was not the first time that he has used profanity when questioning officials. Days later I read an article that Williams is not going to have any endorsement fall-out over the incident. What that is saying to me is that we have now accep en-US SunBlogNuke v2.6.2.0