Article: Neither hot sauce nor soap moves me to outrage

Before I write this column, journalistic ethics require that I make two disclosures of personal experience:

My first-grade teacher washed my mouth out with soap once. She took me into the bathroom, made me chew on a bar of Ivory or something, then brought me back out into the hall, where the rest of the class was waiting, and made me apologize. I had no idea why what I said was wrong, but I apologized because in 1953, when a Catholic nun told you to do something, you did it.

I like hot sauce. I use it liberally, even on meat loaf, and I have tried some of the hottest hot sauces made, including those made with habenero and scotch bonnet peppers, which according to the

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