The F Word

F-Bombing Our Kids

Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Parenting, Mental Health, Cursing, Modern Family, The F Word, Modern Family F-Bomb, Toddlers & Tiaras, Entertainment News

When are we going to let children just be children? When are we going to stop dressing children up in adult get-ups for adult entertainment or amusement or shock value?

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WATCH: Lawrence O'Donnell Accidentally Plays F-Word in Sidney Lumet Tribute

Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: The F Word, Sydney Lumet Dead, Video, Msnbc, Sidney Lumet, Lawrence O'Donnell, Lincoln Center, The Last Word, Media News

Lawrence O'Donnell forgot to edit a good 'ol fashioned F-bomb on his show Monday night. The "Last Word" host played a clip of Phillip Seymour Hoffm...

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The F Word: Crushing Workers in Wisconsin Has National Effects

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Welfare, Wisconsin, F Word, Madison, Scott Walker, Welfare Reform, Tommy Thompson, Grit Tv, The F Word, Laura Flanders, Bill Clinton, Milwaukee, Bradley Foundation, #solidarityWI, Grittv, Unions, Politics News

So that's what they mean by from welfare to work. First you force the poorest Americans into the workforce, then you go after their bargaining power. Wisconsin is only the eye of this storm.

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The F Word: Setting the Story Straight on Snow "Slowdown"

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Post, F Word, Workers, Media, Grit Tv, Snowstorm, Transportation, Sanitation, Fox News, The F Word, Government Workers, Labor, Laura Flanders, Snow, State Workers, Union Busting, New York Times, Grittv, Union, Snowpocalypse, New York News

It's worth noting: the story of a union-staged work slowdown after New York's first major snowstorm of the year has been debunked pretty thoroughly by now.

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The F Word: Protests in Cairo Forgotten by Obama

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, F Word, Twitter, Street, Tunisia, US, Grit Tv, Dictatorship, Facebook, America, The F Word, London, Internet, State of the Union, Illiteracy, Barack Obama, Laura Flanders, Cairo, United States, Protest, Grittv, Mubarak, Action, World News

Why did the president not have anything to say about Egypt -- where thousands of people, inspired by Tunisia, were taking to the streets to protest their own repressive government -- another one the US has backed for years?

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The F Word: Leaving the People Out of the Debate

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Poverty, Budget, Workers, Jobs, Obama, Immigration, Media, Edrie Irvine, Tv, Grit Tv, Arpaio, Fair, The F Word, Television, Unemployed, Unemployment, Laura Flanders, Spending, Grittv, Immigrant, News, Republicans, Politics News

It's not just the unemployed we don't tend to see on U.S. TV. Take public workers. They're in the news every day, but it's not actually them. It's people talking about them.

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The F Word: Public Workers Getting Snowed

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Scott Walker, Queens, Brooklyn, Workers, Broadway, Dave Johnson, Grit Tv, Public Workers, Center for American Progress, Andrew Cuomo, Sanitation, The F Word, Bloomberg, Labor, Blizzard, Laura Flanders, Plow, Snow, John Boehner, Trains, Grittv, Transit, Union, Public Services, New York News

Non-New Yorkers gloat beware -- the Big Apple's storm offers just a taste of the problems that are likely to be coming your way.

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The F Word: Ask, Tell, Don't Kill

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Bradley Manning, Afghanistan, War, Don\?T Ask Don\?T Tell, Dan Choi, Iraq, Navy, Daniel Ellsberg, Grit Tv, Wikileaks, The F Word, Army, Military, Laura Flanders, Service, Air Force, Chris Hedges, Protest, Grittv, Arrest, Politics News

Last Thursday, 131 demonstrators -- many of them veterans -- were arrested outside of the White House, protesting war.

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The F Word: Attacks On Government Workers in Tax Deal

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Public Employees, Build America Bonds, F Word, Bankruptcy, States, Budget, Compromise, Grit Tv, Bruce Krasting, The F Word, Laura Flanders, Tax Cut, Grittv, Yves Smith, James Pethokoukis, Unions, Bill Fletcher, Bernie Sanders, Politics News

A little-noticed provision in the "tax cut compromise" we discussed today with Bernie Sanders might well drain the states' coffers.

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The F Word: When Interpol Cares about Sexual Assault

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, F Word, Rape, Detention, Afghanistan, War, Extradition, Taliban, Grit Tv, Wikileaks, Sexual Assault, Feminism, London, The F Word, Extradite, Military, Laura Flanders, Prison, Assange, Grittv, Sweden, Politics News

Julian Assange turned himself in Tuesday -- he's been arrested and is being held without bail in London ahead of a hearing on extradition to Sweden. T...

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The F Word: WikiLeaks' Economic Warfare

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Class War, Stocks, Economy, Julian Assange, Grit Tv, Business, Wikileaks, Banksters, Barry Ritholtz, The F Word, Bank of America, Wall Street, Laura Flanders, Protest, Grittv, Politics News

If Assange's cyber invasion is to Bankster Street what the civil rights marchers were to segregation, what are Wall Street's water cannons? I can hardly wait to find out.

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The F Word: Why Tax When You Can Freeze?

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Billionaires, Federal Workers, Class War, Millionaires, Moe Tkacik, Obama, Public, Grit Tv, Public Workers, Pay Freeze, Economic Policy Institute, The F Word, Deficit, Freeze, Labor, Profits, Laura Flanders, Corporations, Spending, Grittv, Lawrence Mishel, Unions, Politics News

Although that $2 billion Obama estimates he'll save in freezing federal employees' wages sounds like a lot of money, it isn't. Compare it to the $700 billion that we handed over to Wall Street.

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The F Word: Profits, Pensions, and the Return of GM

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Autoworkers, Gm, Banks, Stocks, Bailouts, Cars, Grit Tv, The F Word, General Motors, Initial Public Offering, Profits, Wall Street, Laura Flanders, Ipo, Grittv, Uaw, Union, Detroit, Politics News

Today marked the return of automaker GM to public trading on the stock market. All hail the American automakers, returning to profitability in a littl...

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The F Word: Time to Call It Torture

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, F Word, Britain, England, Guantanamo, Cameron, Obama, Guardian, Grit Tv, Prosecution, Bush, The F Word, Firedoglake, Cia, Laura Flanders, Grittv, New York Times, Torture Tapes, Torture, Media News

The New York Times is finally calling it torture -- when someone else has admitted to it.

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The F Word: Time to Stop Making Nice to Military

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swan, Queer, Lgbt, F Word, Lesbian, Don\?T Ask Don\?T Tell, Obama, Veterans Day, Navy, Gay, Service Women\?S Action Network, The F Word, Armistice Day, Army, Military, Dadt, Politics News

President Obama's go-slow approach to ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" discrimination in the military has left repeal on life support in a lame-duck ses...

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The F Word: Lessons from Elizabeth Warren

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Robert Reich, Populism, Elizabeth Warren, Clinton, Obama, Bankers, Grit Tv, Bailout, Democrats, Fdr, The F Word, Gingrich, Elections, Wall Street, Laura Flanders, Grittv, Depression, Politics News

Which lesson will Obama take from sweeping midterm losses? The mantra from the media is move right, conciliate, bridge build. But that's the rotten ro...

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The F Word: Who Profits From Silly Campaign Season?

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The F Word, Television, F Word, Alexi Giannoulias, 2010, Mark Kirk, Laura Flanders, Grittv, Obama, Midterms, Media, Campaign, Grit Tv, Advertising, Election, Politics News

We need another word for silly season. It's way beyond silly how some are competing in this midterm race. In Illinois in particular, it's not been pre...

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F***ing up the Charts: on F-Words and Music

Eric Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Censorship, Swear Words, Fcc, Fuck, Fcc Swear Words, Curse Words, The F Word, Public Airwaves, Entertainment News

I appreciate the occasional well-meaning attempts to find sanitized alternative terms that preserve some of the flavor of the old standards, but sometimes there's just no replacement for le f-mot juste.

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The F Word: Losing the War's Beginning

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The F Word, Nato, F Word, Civilians, Petraeus, Afghanistan, Laura Flanders, Pakistan, 911, War, New York Times, Grittv, Washington Post, Grit Tv, Anniversary, Bombing, Politics News

The ninth year of the U.S. war in Afghanistan began with an apology.

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The F Word: It's the Economy, Not the Bloggers

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Robert Gibbs, Politico, Economy, Bloggers, Jobs, Obama, Media, Joe Biden, Grit Tv, Nafta, Hippie Punching, The F Word, Unemployment, Laura Flanders, Rahm Emanuel, Bill Clinton, Glenn Greenwald, Rachel Maddow, Grittv, Susie Madrak, Marcy Wheeler, Richard Trumka, Tea Party, Politics News

Americans are angry with the Obama administration, and the Obama administration is angry with -- bloggers? The left-leaning media? What's wrong with this picture?

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The F Word: Questioning the Cycle of War

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The F Word, Ann Jones, F Word, Cia, Laura Flanders, Afghanistan, Grittv, New York Times, Obama, Iraq, Drone, Media, Grit Tv, News, Politics News

The Obama administration is frustrated with the Pakistani government's inability to quell the Taliban. Who are the US to be frustrated? The answer to...

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The F Word: Is the Drug War a Class War?

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Poverty, Clinton, Violence, Molly Molloy, Jobs, Obama, War on Drugs, Grit Tv, Nafta, El Diario, Charles Bowden, Bush, The F Word, Frontera List, Laura Flanders, Border, Ciudad Juarez, Grittv, Drug War, Security, Juarez, Politics News

The war on drugs. We keep calling it that, it seems, because we like wars on abstract concepts. Like the war on terror, the war on drugs racks up one ...

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The F Word: Larry Summers: Goodbye To All That

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Larry Summers, Hedge Fun, Economics, Banks, Administration, Economy, Obama, Harvard, Grit Tv, Bailout, Feminism, Adviser, The F Word, Wall Street, Brooksley Born, Laura Flanders, Sexism, Grittv, Politics News

The Internet was all a-Twitter yesterday when news broke that Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, will step down by the end of t...

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The F Word: Echoing at the Extremes

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Nazi, Afghanistan, Mexico, Marfa, Obama, Iraq, Grit Tv, Mark Danner, Extremes, Bush, The F Word, Cheney, Laura Flanders, Grittv, Kenyan, Muslim, Tea Party, Torture, Politics News

This weekend, at a panel on the U.S./Mexico border in Marfa, Texas, GRITv friend, reporter Mark Danner discussed the "thinning out" and hard...

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The F Word: Campaign Cash From Rate Hikes

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

"Corporate interests are buying the elections? Oh no", Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, told the New York T...

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