Why I Still Laugh

Even on a dark and rainy day.

Dear E. Jean:

I'm sorry.

I appreciate you wanting to keep it light and lively but that’s a hard ask as our lives are collapsing.

It makes it hard to appreciate your fluffy emails. I just am thinking about unsubscribing and wanted you to understand.

Thanks,

Betty

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Betty! You Brilliant Woman!

OF COURSE! You’re thinking of unsubscribing! Things are “collapsing.”

Of course you’re angry. America is in danger. And our president is Nero.

Therefore, of course it is “hard” to appreciate the “fluffy.” So . . .

Unsubscribe, but promise me one thing, Betty:

Stay Angry.

Whatever keeps your fire hot, do it, woman! Fan those flames, Ms. Betty! Feed ‘em! Don’t just sit there smoking over a “light and lively” Substack. Throw some goddam gasoline on it. And where do you get the gasoline?

Now, if you’ll listen to an old woman for a minute, I know a thing or two about staying angry. And, Honey, I know where to get the gasoline.

I have stayed angry for so many years—stayed…