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Why I’ve moved from Medium to Substack

That’s the long and the short of it: I’ve moved to Substack with my writing and have given up on Medium. I’ll tell you why.

Aug 6, 2021

Why I’ve moved from Medium to Substack

Aug 6, 2021

Applying RICO to the Biden Crime Family, the Dems, and the Media

At the end of my last piece in this space, I promised to discuss why, and how, the RICO statute — the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt…

Oct 29, 2020

Applying RICO to the Biden Crime Family, the Dems, and the Media

Oct 29, 2020

Democracy Dies in Darkness

Democracy dies in darkness. If you care at all about the very survival of American democracy, you should be absolutely terrified of what…

Oct 16, 2020

Democracy Dies in Darkness

Oct 16, 2020

A Nation of Imbeciles?

What the Democratic Party is counting on to get voted into power

Oct 10, 2020

A Nation of Imbeciles?

Oct 10, 2020

Published in
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Banned Books Week: Canceling Thought in 2020 America

Heading toward a cliff we might not be able to climb back from

Oct 1, 2020

Banned Books Week: Canceling Thought in 2020 America

Oct 1, 2020

Published in
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

When They Come for Your Eyeglasses: Cultural Revolution in America

If you think it can’t happen in the U.S., think again

Jul 8, 2020

When They Come for Your Eyeglasses: Cultural Revolution in America

Jul 8, 2020

Published in
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Back to the Plantation

One of the vestiges of the plantation system which depended on slavery for its existence was the racial divisiveness perpetrated by…

Jun 25, 2020

Back to the Plantation

Jun 25, 2020

Why I’m Parting Ways With NaNoWriMo | Stoned Cherry

Re: With you in solidarity.

Jun 4, 2020

Jun 4, 2020

Cards Falling Faster Now Revealing Anti-Trump Plot | FJY.US

It’s always nice to be right. It’s especially nice to be right about developments of great import and which have been the subject of…

May 20, 2020

Cards Falling Faster Now Revealing Anti-Trump Plot | FJY.US

May 20, 2020

Fragging the Commander in Chief

If you’re old enough to remember the Vietnam War, or if you’ve done some research on it, you probably know the term ‶fragging.″ While the…

Apr 19, 2020

Fragging the Commander in Chief

Apr 19, 2020

Bigger Than a Big Weather Story | FJY.US

When I was a practicing journalist I came to learn that there are few stories bigger than a big weather story. I still remember, more than…

Mar 16, 2020

Bigger Than a Big Weather Story | FJY.US

Mar 16, 2020

Ding-Dong! The Wizard Is Dead

In the 1939 classic film , the Wicked Witch of the East is killed when Dorothy’s house, spirited off to Oz from Kansas by a cyclone, lands…

Jan 4, 2020

Ding-Dong! The Wizard Is Dead

Jan 4, 2020

Redux: The Hurricane Next Time

I originally posted the piece that appears below on Sept. 21, 2017, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. There have been more hurricanes…

Sep 5, 2019

Redux: The Hurricane Next Time

Sep 5, 2019

Woodstock Lives (Sort Of)

I’m reminded of the words of Bob Dylan, as much the bard of the Woodstock Generation as anyone, “the times they are a-changin’.” Or more…

Aug 22, 2019

Woodstock Lives (Sort Of)

Aug 22, 2019

July 27, 1969: Memories

Life comes at us in a flow, but we remember it in snippets. What doesn’t wind up on the cutting-room floor of our brain is what remains in…

Jul 27, 2019

July 27, 1969: Memories

Jul 27, 2019

Mueller’s Muddle and the Nation’s Peril

If you watched even part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday, you saw a man who was clearly…

Jul 26, 2019

Mueller’s Muddle and the Nation’s Peril

Jul 26, 2019

Voyage to the Moon: A Personal Journey

“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.” — Words on the plaque left…

Jul 19, 2019

Voyage to the Moon: A Personal Journey

Jul 19, 2019

The Hunger Games on Our Southern Border

If you haven’t read the novel The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, or the other books in the trilogy — Catching Fire and Mockingjay — you…

Jun 28, 2019

The Hunger Games on Our Southern Border

Jun 28, 2019

That Time of Year Again: Thoughts on “the Longest Day in the World”

This piece initially appeared two years ago, on June 21, 2017, the Summer Solstice. Today it is once more the Summer Solstice in the…

Jun 21, 2019

That Time of Year Again: Thoughts on “the Longest Day in the World”

Jun 21, 2019

The Russia Hoax Is Over: Now It’s Time to Prosecute the Real Colluders

Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s report is in, and it’s not going to change a lot of minds. Those afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome…

Mar 28, 2019

The Russia Hoax Is Over: Now It’s Time to Prosecute the Real Colluders

Mar 28, 2019

Frank Yacenda

Frank Yacenda

Frank Yacenda is a writer, editor, blogger, and entrepreneur. He has been a journalist, PR practitioner, diplomat, and professor of writing and journalism.

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