Author Archives: Sabina Becker

Music for a Sunday: Another day, another shooting…

Pardon me, people, I just need to get a few things off my chest: Ahem. Carry on with your daily shoot-’em-ups.

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Quotable: Wanda Sykes on racism, “reverse racism”, and karma

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Wankers of the Week: Swimming in a sea of rape culture

Crappy weekend, everyone! If you’re wondering what all that literal crap floating around you is, it’s called rape culture, and we’re all soaking in it. Time to start fishing those gungy smelly lumps out of the water, eh? And this … Continue reading

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So that’s who’s behind the Ottawa Sinkhole!

I figured as much!

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Clip ‘n’ Save: Ahem.

Courtesy of the Socialist Meme Caucus. For all those Hillarites claiming their gal is the first female nominee running for US president, a wee bit of history to refute that: In case you can’t read the text, it says: From … Continue reading

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El Narco’s perpetual war

Hey! Remember this guy? The one who’s so obsessed with waging war against the FARC in Colombia that he got up his own right-wing paramilitary army to murder local campesinos and blame it on the guerrillas? Yeah. HIM. Well, guess … Continue reading

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It was 35 years ago today…

…that the first indicators of a new epidemic were published: In the period October 1980-May 1981, 5 young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at 3 different hospitals in Los Angeles, California. Two of the … Continue reading

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Music for a Sunday: How to be a comeback kid

One way to do it? Be Martin Fry. Not only did he survive Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the mid-1980s, when his career was at its first glittering, silk-suited peak, but now — three decades post-cancer — he’s taking up where The … Continue reading

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Wankers of the Week: Chicken à la Drumpf

Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how about that Drumpf-Bernie debate that never happened, even though Der Drumpf got someone else to pay for it. Guess what that makes him? Yup…Buk buk buk BAWWWWWK! Ahem. And now that we’ve seen his true … Continue reading

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How to debunk xenophobia, in easy pictorial form

How to counter a Backward Britain poster calling for a “Brexit”? Let some kid with a Sharpie show you how it’s done: Claim: “Immigration is out of control.” Response: “Is it? The problems in the Middle East are out of … Continue reading

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