Articles

  • 2 days ago | paragraphstacker.substack.com | Daniel Finney

    TRUMP: When you stay the night, you always leave the toilet seat up. ELON: At least I hit the toilet. ELON: You always hog the covers. TRUMP: You nag me more than Melania use to when we slept in the same bed. ELON: How can I trust a man who does so much blow? TRUMP: How can I trust a man who does so much ketamine, ecstacy, psychadelic mushrooms, and Adderall? ELON: I quit! You forgot our anniversary!TRUMP: I gave you the power to cripple the federal government! What more do you want?

  • 3 days ago | paragraphstacker.substack.com | Daniel Finney

    One can't argue with Sen. Joni Ernst’s logic: “We are going to die.”Ernst smugly chirped the one-liner at a town hall meeting last week at Applington-Parkersburg High School. A cynic might say it's a callous and ignorant thing to say in front of a room full of constituents who are concerned about cuts to federal aid for the poor and Medicaid.

  • 5 days ago | paragraphstacker.substack.com | Daniel Finney

    “I’m sorry, Pluto, we have to let you go. We have a dog that talks and is a master of physical comedy. You’re just a … dog. These animal control officers are hear to drive you out to ‘the farm.’”“Ant-Man, Wasp, it turns out only one arthropod-themed superhero really works: Spider-Man. Pack up you hives. The exterminator arrives a 5 p.m.”“BB-8, it’s a good news, bad news situation. The bad news is you’re fired.

  • 6 days ago | paragraphstacker.substack.com | Daniel Finney

    Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret Houlihan for 11 seasons on “M*A*S*H,” died Friday. She was 87. Swit’s rendition of Margaret changed what was possible for women to be on TV. Network roles for women in the 1970s were dominated by cheerful matriarchs like Carol Brady and Edith Bunker. Mary Tyler Moore pushed boundaries with a show about a single woman who didn’t seem too interested in husband hunting. Yet her stories usually reset beyond the end of the episode.

  • 1 week ago | paragraphstacker.substack.com | Daniel Finney

    Selling her used underwear online seemed too trashy. Men are gross; might as well make some cash off it. Those Gen Z kids are weird. Mixed individualism and sexual empowerment of third-wave feminism with the digital drive and intersectionality of fourth-wave feminism. Wanted to prove to the Americans that there are no minimum standards of decency left. Finney’s 5 is an occasional humor column by exiled newspaper columnist Daniel P. Finney.