Author Archives: Sabina Becker

Quotable: Noam Chomsky on privatization

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Sabina Becker

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Music for a Sunday: I can’t let go

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Sabina Becker

A pretty, acoustic version of the ’80s-inflected tune. And now I can’t decide which I love more. What a great dilemma!

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Wankers of the Week: Labor Day Slackers

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! Monday is Labor Day, so this week’s entry is dedicated formally to all the workers out there doing their jobs, and also to the organizers of history who lived and died fighting for workers’ rights. Thank you, … Continue reading →

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Chris Alexander, refugee killer

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Chris Alexander killed little Alan Kurdi. Alan is the three-year-old Syrian boy whose drowned body, washed up on a Turkish beach, has been plastered all over the media, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. His mother, Reham, and older brother Galib, … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Oliver Sacks on his life and work

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Cancer may have claimed the man today, but the work lives on. Rest in power.

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Music for a Sunday: Tunes for Harpo to hate

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Sabina Becker

So, it would appear Harpo really hates it when people sing about him and what he’s done to our fair land. And he’s slapped the censure on a scientist who did just that. Well, it looks like he’s gonna have … Continue reading →

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Wankers of the Week: As(s)h(o)ley Madison

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how about that Ashley Madison data dump? It truly is the gift that keeps on giving, because it’s flushing assholes out right and right-er. Strangely, I’m not finding any mentions of people from the left on … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Buffy Sainte-Marie on violence against women

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Sabina Becker

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Majority of Germans oppose prostitution

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Sabina Becker

FEMEN protesting Amnesty International (photo: EMMA). The feminist “sextremists” may not be so extreme after all; in Germany, it turns out, they speak for more people than one might think. A clear majority of Germans opposes pimping, and an additional … Continue reading →