Author Archives: Sabina Becker

Quotable: Paul Krugman on wages

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Sabina Becker

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Prostitution in Germany: hard facts, hard debate, harder thoughts

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Sabina Becker

(Photo: EMMA.) German FEMEN demonstrators outside the largest brothel in the cathedral city of Köln. They consider prostitution a human rights abuse, and hold up human trafficking, rampant in Germany, as an example of how liberalization of laws governing the … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Ich mittendrin, und…

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Haben Sie eine Frage? Etwas, das Sie quält? Like, say, how this sounds in English? Here you go: Peter Gabriel had an excellent German translator; it’s almost word-for-word, which is very hard to do. (And I would know.) He sounds … Continue reading →

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Wankers of the Week: Operation Pillar of Twinkies

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, how are we liking that whipsawing we all took this week? Israel attacked Gaza, then turned around and framed it as self-defence, inconveniently forgetting that some journalists like to keep timelines of nasty events like that. … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: El Ecuadorable is full of win

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Sabina Becker

You can’t keep a good president down…or shut him up. And why would you want to, when he empowers his own people to speak out, too? Especially not when he just won a very important prize for doing just that? … Continue reading →

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Don’t back down, Justin!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Sabina Becker

What’s wrong with what Justin Trudeau said here? I’ll give you a broad hint: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. En effet, c’est tout correct: The remarks in question come from an interview Trudeau did in Nov. 2010, with French-language interviewer Patrick Lagace, on … Continue reading →

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Photo du jour

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Gotta love that Macy’s parade! Happy Thanksgiving to my friends in the US.

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Oh dear. Bad times in Fascist Country!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Poor fascists, how my heart bleeds for them. They’re in trouble just about everywhere nowadays, it seems. From my friend Anthony in Sweden comes this gem about some local Nazis-in-all-but-name and a kerfuffle they got into last week: The Sweden … Continue reading →

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Quotable: René Magritte on art

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Ceci n’est pas René Magritte. (Sorry, couldn’t resist!)

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There is NO such thing as “ex-gay”.

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Wouldn’t it be nice if such a switch existed? If you could go from Gay to Not Gay as easily and painlessly as turning off a light? Sadly, it doesn’t exist. And being gay doesn’t work that way. And trying … Continue reading →