Monthly Archives: April 2006

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Why are these men laughing?

Posted on April 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Not sure what’s so funny, but maybe they’re having a good chuckle over the huge disparity between two approval ratings: that of Hugo Chavez, and that of Dubya.

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Please tell me this is some kind of joke

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Doesn’t this look just like the sort of thing the Ku Klux Klan would fly?

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Another unsexy post on de-privatized Argentinian water…

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…which, if you’re smart, you’ll read anyway, because one day it could concern YOU. (I’ll tell you why shortly…) Bob Chapman, of the International Forecaster, writes: Water is contaminated in some suburbs of Buenos Aires and has been since 1993, … Continue reading →

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It’s Campbell’s Soup that makes you poop

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…down your leg and in your boot;Through the hall and out the door–That’s what Campbell’s Soup is for!(Remember that rhyme?)Mm-mm good!

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Jill Carroll: “I did not speak freely”

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Remember how all the asshats on the right got up in arms about the last video her captors made of Jill Carroll, the freelancer writing for the Christian Science Monitor? Apparently they really believed her when she said capitivity was … Continue reading →

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Would this be illegal in South Dakota?

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Hey…it’s a pertinent question! Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother’s womb, a doctor said. The infant, who was identified only as Nazia, … Continue reading →

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Hell’s maw is a-gapin’…

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Mike Malloy has a wonderful turn of phrase that I sometimes hear him use on his radio show (which, by the way, you shouldn’t miss–it’s on Air America Radio, weeknights, 10 pm-1 am Eastern. Webcast available here.) Whenever someone particularly … Continue reading →

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Is your husband on the down-low? Then screw him!

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Seriously. This is the best answer the Religious Reich has for black women in Brokeback marriages. You’re not having sex with him regularly enough, so he’s turning to other men in frustration (as if other women willing to do the … Continue reading →

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