I found TFN irresistible when I first hopped on board a while back. I still do. Your journalism bona fides were obvious immediately. Your POV is spot on. Smart, articulate, informative and fucking entertaining. A delicious meal.
Your snarky self is what made me look you up after hearing you were let go from TYT. Your newsletter there was what made my day and I was so glad to find that you were still writing. I started with the free version for a short time and when I got completely disturbed (rather than only slightly disturbed) at MSM, I decided to pay some independent substackers and you were the first. No regrets. I know you have to do what you have to do, but I'm hoping you stay your snarky self to enable me and many others to get through the obviously chaotic years ahead.
That's too damn funny! I don't know how they keep getting my email even after I unsubscribe but the DNC & DCCC have been inundating my inbox with an average of 30 emails a day. I don't know who is writing these emails but they suck. Anyway I like to reply every once in a while, its very cathartic to call them out even if they aren't reading them. I think this is one of my favorites bad grammar and all.
Buckle up buttercup it's been a while since I let you guys know how I feel and how most of us feel about the status quo in our politics & especially the overwhelm of our election system. Let the fuckery... I mean games begin!
For starters we the voters are told that our vote is our voice yet we never get to pick or choose the policies or laws we want to be enacted. We only exist to be bombarded with dozens of emails a day, phone calls every damn day begging for donations. But 30 a day? If I dont delete them every day in a week I will have over a thousand because of all the PACs, groups and other organizers sending me emails for money.
"You can make a difference in this election for as little as $4!" You can make a difference in millions of people's lives by passing Medicare for All!! I can say it all I want, doesn't mean you're gonna listen or do it! 🤣
Seriously if the donor class can put stipulations on what they want in return then why can't I? Why can't I expect political favors for my money like the donor class gets? Wait if I donate that makes me part of the donor class don't it? Well then pass out the Medicare for all & reinstate the regulatory provisions The Glass Steagall Act of 1933 and others that prevented the level of price gouging we are barely surviving through!!
And don't give me that BS line that it's you or Drumpf! We know that & we are still struggling with the aftermath of his grift! Money doesn't make the candidate or the campaign, it's what you are actually going to do to make our lives better & finally put the real people first & not the bullshit definition of people in the Citizens United decision! Corporations had more damn rights before that POS decision and now they have more because it also defines money as speech. Opening the floodgates for the rich corporate class.
"If you send us $5 we will match it 400%!" Wait what? You're going to match my 5 bucks up for 400%?... Dude if you can do that you don't need my money! I mean come one why does it cost more than a $1 BILLION to run an election? I mean my head was spinning when I did the research and found that the US out spends every other country for elections almost the same as the difference in military spending.
You could take a fraction of both to cover universal healthcare & public education. Please stop with the talking point that as VP you & Biden reduced the cost of prescription drugs. That's a load of horse shyte! It was only 10 medications, medications that mean life or death to those that are on them but for the rest of us who aren't on those 10 drugs we are still paying out the ass just to survive while the same medications are 300 to 1000% cheaper in Canada & Mexico! Unlike the spin Cory Booker wants us to believe they are exactly the same, manufactured by the same big pharma donors that help fund his & your campaigns. There are several drugs approved by the FDA that other countries have banned like over the counter Vicks vapor, Sudafed & Benadryl. Several antidepressants and antipsychotics & common painkillers like Codeine, tramadol and the list goes on. But we are supposed to sing your praises because we got a crumb compared to the slice of the pie we have been waiting for since the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. More than 40 years and the only thing that has trickled down to us is the tax liability for every corporate tax break passed since then. It's like you guys just let the lobbyist dine and dash on the voter for shits & giggles.
"You are an important part of the political process & can make more of an impact by sending us $10 today!" Really? Well if you say so.... But why don't we have universal healthcare by now? Since the voters over the past 40 or so years have been voting for it to happen. The only thing we got was a stripped down version of the ACA after it got rewritten by the for profit medical lobbyist. Who happens to be one of the largest donor bases to the Democratic party. I'm not sure what position they hold but it's up there with private equity & banking.
"Hippy want a sticker?" Tempting but no! I haven't had a hippy sticker in more than 30 years! The last time I took hippy stickers I watched Alien and let's just say it was one hell of a trip!
Okay none of those titles are actual email titles... I took a bit of creative license with them. But some are really close and reflect how they are received by myself and others that get assaulted daily just checking our emails. I counted the emails just in my inbox for a week not including the ones in my spam folder & it averaged 30 per day, Got some emails from reps of Robert De Niro, Barrak & Michelle Obama, Hillary & Bill Clinton ( Who I wouldn't give two fecking cents for because of him killing the remaining provisions in the Glass Steagall Act of 1933, that was a hell of a gift to his donors) And Carole King who I absolutely adore and so much more... We are tired of getting the fear mongering spin on everything & anything that can be used to induce fear and manipulate support. How is that not a form of extortion or blackmail or at the very least corrosion?
It sounds like I'm asking for a lot don't it. What you don't get is all of these things were used as campaign promises over the past 40 years. Promises that we were told would become reality if we voted for that person. However we still haven't seen one of them fulfilled in 40 years. But we can damn sure get comprehensive legislation passed to help corporations during a pandemic or to cut their taxes or increase their funding to the tune of billions of dollars per industry under the false pretense that they are job creators. Mom & pop shops are the job creators and they are a dying breed because they can't exploit the loopholes or get subsidies like Fartbook, GE or Perdue Pharma.
Phew!... I don't know about you but I feel better. Have a great day and I'm sure I will be writing again soon.
Jonathan you are a good man and I am an admirer of your writing and your ideas. But it seems to me at this point we are fighting with no ammunition. We squandered all our ammunition on Merrick Garland's dicklessness, Biden's dicklessness in not removing him, Fani Willis's pitifully feeble self defense, Kamala being a pom pom waving Barbie Doll. July 26 shortly after Biden passed the torch to Kamala I posted a bit of a manifesto on Adam Kinzinger's substack of what the campaign should look like, and that we are in for a rude awakening if we think Kamala riding high in the polls may not just turn out to be a sugar high. What should have awakened everyone was the debate when everyone was rejoicing how Kamala kicked his ass. CNN's poll of debate watchers by a 2/3 majority said she won yet that same poll by a 20 point margin favored Insane Clown to run the economy. To willingly accept the blame for the drastic rise in prices that clearly the blame lies with the pandemic and Insane Clown's clownish response was nothing short of political malpractice. One simple thing I suggested to Adam was to stick Insane Clown with the name Father Of Presidential Immunity. I was hoping Adam would at least run with that on CNN or wherever and hopefully make it go viral. Didn't happen. Then after the election Kinzinger posts a note "Let's Fight". Someone responded "Fight with what Adam?" I had to laugh. I also said this is not a campaign this is all out war and losing is not an option. And if we do lose we are all left to ponder what more collectively we could have done. And that is where we are now. The calm before the storm. They say the first stage of grief is defiance and the last stage acceptance. We can be defiant now but come January 20 we have already seen that $15M is not enough to get ABC off the hook. Insane Clown intends to have his FCC take down their entire network. And Insane Clown will go right on down from top to bottom the list of names in his Book Of Retribution. I suspect that if your plans come anywhere near fruition Insane Clown will do the needful to shut you down. I wish I could be more optimistic and I will be happy to be proven wrong but I have come to the point of never underestimating our relentless will to lose.
Thank you. Things change SO quickly, though. And we are often overly determinative about bad outcomes. Especially ones with four years worth of consequences. Hang in there. Trump's about to deliver four years of civics lessons. There's a chance folks might just learn something...!
If they didn't learn anything from "J6" they will never learn. And Denocrats will never learn that sometimes like when your opponent is shitting all over you that you have to put the pom poms down and put him down and keep him down. Especially when the opponent has so much surface area for attack and cannot take a punch.
What the cheese & crackers! Do you think most people sitting on there couches are thinking all this facist criminal news reporting is just- NO 😂WTF C’mon , trump took the J right out of our Joy!! your creative F bombing is hilarious without being trashy…and here I thought I would pack away all my F bombs & keep it clean , or so I thought - I need to vent & I don’t want to be nice with so much on the line with women’s rights and our democracy.
Of course one wants to evolve. That said I came for the edgy reporting, and the clever and refreshing humor that hits the spot but doesn't bludgeon. This is in part why, after only one episode, I sent $. TFN makes the "news" fun while also taking it seriously. Don't abandon growth but don't overthink. Let your freak flag fly.
In addition to your humor, your insights, and your journalism, I value the way you share with your readers what the fuck is going on with TFN. I appreciate reading about what you're wrestling with and aiming for, as you do in this post. Like Robin, I also look forward to your posts. Happy New Year!
The funny is why I read in the first place. To read the horrible truth about what goes on, well, it's horrible. Your comedy helps me laugh, not cry through it. Your balance in reporting is incredible, seeing how bent the people are behind the stories. I for one wish you an overnight fortune to buy an entire network (TFN - the media conglomerate - insert Jame Earl Jones clone VoiceOver here) so that more human things would hear what they are missing. Your idea for a repository of links and/or ball peen hammers to the heads of our supposed representatives is a great one, sure to have that group squealing and squirming to NOT have such a thing ever get made. But keep swinging. You are the closest thing to an American Rebel that I have found... and writing that is as hard to get off of as dog shit on sneakers... (in a good way.. maybe not the best analogy). Thank you for your continued excellent work.
After reading for free for a few months and thinking I probably wasn’t going to read TFN much after the election, I soon had to admit that every day I look forward to Jonathan’s posts and sharing with everyone I know who I think would appreciate them. So I finally decided to bite the bullet and pay for a year’s subscription. I need that splash of humor to go along with the in-depth reporting and analysis!
Robin, wow, thank you so much! I'm so glad TFN can be of service. And so appreciate you subscribing to help keep TFN free for every. Happy New Year and please give my best to everyone you know!
I was one of the those responsible for the October spike. Still a free subscriber, but I bought myself a t-shirt and sticker as a christmas present to myself (where do I send the pic?). I will subscribe as soon as I am able to. Keep rocking bro.
Tony -- if that IS your enam! -- thank you so much. Love to have you spikers on board for the ride and thank you so much for merching it up! I really hope you enjoy the t-shirt and sticker! You can post the pics here or in the chat or I think you can email me directly by just hitting reply on the newsletter...? Either way, thrilled to keep rocking with your support! Thank you!
If the feeble use of obscenity in the name of your journal/newspaper’s “attention getting” heading (title) is just a smart-assed way to attract other
F——ers to your newspaper then count me out. I want nothing to do with it. I learned how to speak with civility and don’t want to read inferior journalism that cannot earn my respect as a concerned liberal reader. Enjoy your MAGA mentality reputation.
I dispute your claim that you learned to speak with civility. If you've made it this far in life without internalizing the phrase "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything," then all you've learned is how to be judgmental without cussing. I'll take Jonathan's disposal of opinions about which words are naughty over your polite condescension any day.
Sorry you interpret my comment as condescending. If in fact I’ve offended, I’ll beg your forgiveness. Far from condescending, I feel like a foreigner in a world where the same word that I was punished (mouth washed out with soap) for saying. is now liberally sprinkled into every exclaimation, inclination, recitation like cinnamon sugar with melted butter on sweet rolls!
The literal definition of the word f—- is a cold malicious sexual act offense to women and debauchery to the speaker. Yes I’m a real old woman and I don’t take crap from people who are so limited in vocabulary that they say f- this and f-that without talking into account that more concrete info about the negativity they blindly fling at the air might be more effective.
Hi Linda! Ironically, I just told a longtime friend I hadn't heard any negative comments about the title of this Substack, and now of course, here you are! I wish I could be confident that the title really does attract attention -- or at least more attention than it dissuades. But I always thought of it as a way of establishing right up front that I'm not interested in honoring arbitrary norms (and certainly not one that stigmatizes sex). I promise you that I, too, am quite capable of speaking with civility, having written for broadcast television and even a few legends along the way, such as Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. That said, I don't foresee much risk of acquiring a MAGA-mentality reputation, especially given the nature of my politics. If you're open to it, however, I do have a non-NSFW Substack that's just my original reporting and is family-friendly enough that it's been reprinted by Salon and even Religion Dispatches. You can find that here: jonathanlarsen.substack.com. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and Happy New Year!
Thank you for your respectful reply, Jonathan. I’m very interested in frequenting your alternate Substack site. Jon, I also have a Substack but it is very feeble and disorganized with entries of my poetry given as comments (yes I know I need help). Because my creativity eases my cognitive and emotional shadows, I include a bit of relevant personal history and I do paintings (yes they, too, are feeble) although I don’t know how to show them along with my poetry (which I don’t know how to properly share). So far I hope you realize my gratitude to you for your kind acceptance and understanding. Linda Sanford Wirt
Also, TV doesn’t deserve you- although I know nothing about making a news program, I have to think that your voice would be significantly diluted, even if it was your own show. And they have other goals than finding the truth and making enough money to keep a roof overhead. I hope you keep growing so you can stay.
I found TFN irresistible when I first hopped on board a while back. I still do. Your journalism bona fides were obvious immediately. Your POV is spot on. Smart, articulate, informative and fucking entertaining. A delicious meal.
Thank you!
Your snarky self is what made me look you up after hearing you were let go from TYT. Your newsletter there was what made my day and I was so glad to find that you were still writing. I started with the free version for a short time and when I got completely disturbed (rather than only slightly disturbed) at MSM, I decided to pay some independent substackers and you were the first. No regrets. I know you have to do what you have to do, but I'm hoping you stay your snarky self to enable me and many others to get through the obviously chaotic years ahead.
Thank you so much, Karen.
That's too damn funny! I don't know how they keep getting my email even after I unsubscribe but the DNC & DCCC have been inundating my inbox with an average of 30 emails a day. I don't know who is writing these emails but they suck. Anyway I like to reply every once in a while, its very cathartic to call them out even if they aren't reading them. I think this is one of my favorites bad grammar and all.
Buckle up buttercup it's been a while since I let you guys know how I feel and how most of us feel about the status quo in our politics & especially the overwhelm of our election system. Let the fuckery... I mean games begin!
For starters we the voters are told that our vote is our voice yet we never get to pick or choose the policies or laws we want to be enacted. We only exist to be bombarded with dozens of emails a day, phone calls every damn day begging for donations. But 30 a day? If I dont delete them every day in a week I will have over a thousand because of all the PACs, groups and other organizers sending me emails for money.
"You can make a difference in this election for as little as $4!" You can make a difference in millions of people's lives by passing Medicare for All!! I can say it all I want, doesn't mean you're gonna listen or do it! 🤣
Seriously if the donor class can put stipulations on what they want in return then why can't I? Why can't I expect political favors for my money like the donor class gets? Wait if I donate that makes me part of the donor class don't it? Well then pass out the Medicare for all & reinstate the regulatory provisions The Glass Steagall Act of 1933 and others that prevented the level of price gouging we are barely surviving through!!
And don't give me that BS line that it's you or Drumpf! We know that & we are still struggling with the aftermath of his grift! Money doesn't make the candidate or the campaign, it's what you are actually going to do to make our lives better & finally put the real people first & not the bullshit definition of people in the Citizens United decision! Corporations had more damn rights before that POS decision and now they have more because it also defines money as speech. Opening the floodgates for the rich corporate class.
"If you send us $5 we will match it 400%!" Wait what? You're going to match my 5 bucks up for 400%?... Dude if you can do that you don't need my money! I mean come one why does it cost more than a $1 BILLION to run an election? I mean my head was spinning when I did the research and found that the US out spends every other country for elections almost the same as the difference in military spending.
You could take a fraction of both to cover universal healthcare & public education. Please stop with the talking point that as VP you & Biden reduced the cost of prescription drugs. That's a load of horse shyte! It was only 10 medications, medications that mean life or death to those that are on them but for the rest of us who aren't on those 10 drugs we are still paying out the ass just to survive while the same medications are 300 to 1000% cheaper in Canada & Mexico! Unlike the spin Cory Booker wants us to believe they are exactly the same, manufactured by the same big pharma donors that help fund his & your campaigns. There are several drugs approved by the FDA that other countries have banned like over the counter Vicks vapor, Sudafed & Benadryl. Several antidepressants and antipsychotics & common painkillers like Codeine, tramadol and the list goes on. But we are supposed to sing your praises because we got a crumb compared to the slice of the pie we have been waiting for since the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. More than 40 years and the only thing that has trickled down to us is the tax liability for every corporate tax break passed since then. It's like you guys just let the lobbyist dine and dash on the voter for shits & giggles.
"You are an important part of the political process & can make more of an impact by sending us $10 today!" Really? Well if you say so.... But why don't we have universal healthcare by now? Since the voters over the past 40 or so years have been voting for it to happen. The only thing we got was a stripped down version of the ACA after it got rewritten by the for profit medical lobbyist. Who happens to be one of the largest donor bases to the Democratic party. I'm not sure what position they hold but it's up there with private equity & banking.
"Hippy want a sticker?" Tempting but no! I haven't had a hippy sticker in more than 30 years! The last time I took hippy stickers I watched Alien and let's just say it was one hell of a trip!
Okay none of those titles are actual email titles... I took a bit of creative license with them. But some are really close and reflect how they are received by myself and others that get assaulted daily just checking our emails. I counted the emails just in my inbox for a week not including the ones in my spam folder & it averaged 30 per day, Got some emails from reps of Robert De Niro, Barrak & Michelle Obama, Hillary & Bill Clinton ( Who I wouldn't give two fecking cents for because of him killing the remaining provisions in the Glass Steagall Act of 1933, that was a hell of a gift to his donors) And Carole King who I absolutely adore and so much more... We are tired of getting the fear mongering spin on everything & anything that can be used to induce fear and manipulate support. How is that not a form of extortion or blackmail or at the very least corrosion?
It sounds like I'm asking for a lot don't it. What you don't get is all of these things were used as campaign promises over the past 40 years. Promises that we were told would become reality if we voted for that person. However we still haven't seen one of them fulfilled in 40 years. But we can damn sure get comprehensive legislation passed to help corporations during a pandemic or to cut their taxes or increase their funding to the tune of billions of dollars per industry under the false pretense that they are job creators. Mom & pop shops are the job creators and they are a dying breed because they can't exploit the loopholes or get subsidies like Fartbook, GE or Perdue Pharma.
Phew!... I don't know about you but I feel better. Have a great day and I'm sure I will be writing again soon.
Love
Mi Moo
AKA The Angry Heifer.
Moo Bitches!
Epic rant. Thank you.
Very. Smart. Honest. Funny.
I continue to look forward to your words!
Thank you, DR!
While being a famous comic book artist, Neal Adams also believed some comic book style fantasies, like "growing earth theory".
He was interviewed about it nearly 20 years ago on The Skeptics Guide to the Universe: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-51
He definitely did! I met him once or twice at cons but never brought up physics. Epic artist. Game-changer.
Jonathan you are a good man and I am an admirer of your writing and your ideas. But it seems to me at this point we are fighting with no ammunition. We squandered all our ammunition on Merrick Garland's dicklessness, Biden's dicklessness in not removing him, Fani Willis's pitifully feeble self defense, Kamala being a pom pom waving Barbie Doll. July 26 shortly after Biden passed the torch to Kamala I posted a bit of a manifesto on Adam Kinzinger's substack of what the campaign should look like, and that we are in for a rude awakening if we think Kamala riding high in the polls may not just turn out to be a sugar high. What should have awakened everyone was the debate when everyone was rejoicing how Kamala kicked his ass. CNN's poll of debate watchers by a 2/3 majority said she won yet that same poll by a 20 point margin favored Insane Clown to run the economy. To willingly accept the blame for the drastic rise in prices that clearly the blame lies with the pandemic and Insane Clown's clownish response was nothing short of political malpractice. One simple thing I suggested to Adam was to stick Insane Clown with the name Father Of Presidential Immunity. I was hoping Adam would at least run with that on CNN or wherever and hopefully make it go viral. Didn't happen. Then after the election Kinzinger posts a note "Let's Fight". Someone responded "Fight with what Adam?" I had to laugh. I also said this is not a campaign this is all out war and losing is not an option. And if we do lose we are all left to ponder what more collectively we could have done. And that is where we are now. The calm before the storm. They say the first stage of grief is defiance and the last stage acceptance. We can be defiant now but come January 20 we have already seen that $15M is not enough to get ABC off the hook. Insane Clown intends to have his FCC take down their entire network. And Insane Clown will go right on down from top to bottom the list of names in his Book Of Retribution. I suspect that if your plans come anywhere near fruition Insane Clown will do the needful to shut you down. I wish I could be more optimistic and I will be happy to be proven wrong but I have come to the point of never underestimating our relentless will to lose.
Thank you. Things change SO quickly, though. And we are often overly determinative about bad outcomes. Especially ones with four years worth of consequences. Hang in there. Trump's about to deliver four years of civics lessons. There's a chance folks might just learn something...!
If they didn't learn anything from "J6" they will never learn. And Denocrats will never learn that sometimes like when your opponent is shitting all over you that you have to put the pom poms down and put him down and keep him down. Especially when the opponent has so much surface area for attack and cannot take a punch.
What the cheese & crackers! Do you think most people sitting on there couches are thinking all this facist criminal news reporting is just- NO 😂WTF C’mon , trump took the J right out of our Joy!! your creative F bombing is hilarious without being trashy…and here I thought I would pack away all my F bombs & keep it clean , or so I thought - I need to vent & I don’t want to be nice with so much on the line with women’s rights and our democracy.
You ever think of doing Stand up?
I've thought better of it! Does that count...?!?
Of course one wants to evolve. That said I came for the edgy reporting, and the clever and refreshing humor that hits the spot but doesn't bludgeon. This is in part why, after only one episode, I sent $. TFN makes the "news" fun while also taking it seriously. Don't abandon growth but don't overthink. Let your freak flag fly.
Thank you, David. I don't want to lose any of what people get out of TFN now. That said, overthinking is my jam...
In addition to your humor, your insights, and your journalism, I value the way you share with your readers what the fuck is going on with TFN. I appreciate reading about what you're wrestling with and aiming for, as you do in this post. Like Robin, I also look forward to your posts. Happy New Year!
Thank you. And Happy New Year!
The funny is why I read in the first place. To read the horrible truth about what goes on, well, it's horrible. Your comedy helps me laugh, not cry through it. Your balance in reporting is incredible, seeing how bent the people are behind the stories. I for one wish you an overnight fortune to buy an entire network (TFN - the media conglomerate - insert Jame Earl Jones clone VoiceOver here) so that more human things would hear what they are missing. Your idea for a repository of links and/or ball peen hammers to the heads of our supposed representatives is a great one, sure to have that group squealing and squirming to NOT have such a thing ever get made. But keep swinging. You are the closest thing to an American Rebel that I have found... and writing that is as hard to get off of as dog shit on sneakers... (in a good way.. maybe not the best analogy). Thank you for your continued excellent work.
Thank you, Mike. I will wear the shoe-poop analogy with pride.
Keep up the snarky. It piques my interest to go down rabbit holes that would otherwise go unexplored.
After reading for free for a few months and thinking I probably wasn’t going to read TFN much after the election, I soon had to admit that every day I look forward to Jonathan’s posts and sharing with everyone I know who I think would appreciate them. So I finally decided to bite the bullet and pay for a year’s subscription. I need that splash of humor to go along with the in-depth reporting and analysis!
Robin, wow, thank you so much! I'm so glad TFN can be of service. And so appreciate you subscribing to help keep TFN free for every. Happy New Year and please give my best to everyone you know!
I was one of the those responsible for the October spike. Still a free subscriber, but I bought myself a t-shirt and sticker as a christmas present to myself (where do I send the pic?). I will subscribe as soon as I am able to. Keep rocking bro.
Tony -- if that IS your enam! -- thank you so much. Love to have you spikers on board for the ride and thank you so much for merching it up! I really hope you enjoy the t-shirt and sticker! You can post the pics here or in the chat or I think you can email me directly by just hitting reply on the newsletter...? Either way, thrilled to keep rocking with your support! Thank you!
If the feeble use of obscenity in the name of your journal/newspaper’s “attention getting” heading (title) is just a smart-assed way to attract other
F——ers to your newspaper then count me out. I want nothing to do with it. I learned how to speak with civility and don’t want to read inferior journalism that cannot earn my respect as a concerned liberal reader. Enjoy your MAGA mentality reputation.
I dispute your claim that you learned to speak with civility. If you've made it this far in life without internalizing the phrase "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything," then all you've learned is how to be judgmental without cussing. I'll take Jonathan's disposal of opinions about which words are naughty over your polite condescension any day.
Sorry you interpret my comment as condescending. If in fact I’ve offended, I’ll beg your forgiveness. Far from condescending, I feel like a foreigner in a world where the same word that I was punished (mouth washed out with soap) for saying. is now liberally sprinkled into every exclaimation, inclination, recitation like cinnamon sugar with melted butter on sweet rolls!
The literal definition of the word f—- is a cold malicious sexual act offense to women and debauchery to the speaker. Yes I’m a real old woman and I don’t take crap from people who are so limited in vocabulary that they say f- this and f-that without talking into account that more concrete info about the negativity they blindly fling at the air might be more effective.
Hi Linda! Ironically, I just told a longtime friend I hadn't heard any negative comments about the title of this Substack, and now of course, here you are! I wish I could be confident that the title really does attract attention -- or at least more attention than it dissuades. But I always thought of it as a way of establishing right up front that I'm not interested in honoring arbitrary norms (and certainly not one that stigmatizes sex). I promise you that I, too, am quite capable of speaking with civility, having written for broadcast television and even a few legends along the way, such as Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. That said, I don't foresee much risk of acquiring a MAGA-mentality reputation, especially given the nature of my politics. If you're open to it, however, I do have a non-NSFW Substack that's just my original reporting and is family-friendly enough that it's been reprinted by Salon and even Religion Dispatches. You can find that here: jonathanlarsen.substack.com. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and Happy New Year!
Thank you for your respectful reply, Jonathan. I’m very interested in frequenting your alternate Substack site. Jon, I also have a Substack but it is very feeble and disorganized with entries of my poetry given as comments (yes I know I need help). Because my creativity eases my cognitive and emotional shadows, I include a bit of relevant personal history and I do paintings (yes they, too, are feeble) although I don’t know how to show them along with my poetry (which I don’t know how to properly share). So far I hope you realize my gratitude to you for your kind acceptance and understanding. Linda Sanford Wirt
No sweat, Linda. Thanks for your kind words. My work is feeble, too, so I guess we’ll all just have to do the best we can!
Where's this "inferior journalism" Linda's kvetching about? Maybe she clicked on Roger Stone's SS by accident. 🤷♀️
Also, TV doesn’t deserve you- although I know nothing about making a news program, I have to think that your voice would be significantly diluted, even if it was your own show. And they have other goals than finding the truth and making enough money to keep a roof overhead. I hope you keep growing so you can stay.
Every day is a great fucking day with TFN! Thanks for your hot fucking takes, snark, and YES, humor!