Author Archives: Sabina Becker

Music for a Sunday: Chuck a can, chuck a can, chuck a can…

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Silly schlock: We haz it.And if you wonder where the “chuck a can” bit really came from, here:Flashy keyboards and a funky bassline. What more does a soulful diva need? (Besides a funky hunk, that is?)

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Wankers of the Week: Bad eggs edition

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Pee-fucking-yew–what IS that smell? Looks like salmonella’s not the only thing that can turn your stomach, and it’s not the only thing stinking up the joint of late. These bad eggs–of the human variety–are making me wanna puke:1. Kim Fucking … Continue reading →

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Another day older and deeper in debt, for sure

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Sabina Becker

A little mood music, Maestro Ford…And now, the story. I saw on the CBC news this evening how they’ve brought up a hydraulic borer to help start the rescue effort for those 33 miners trapped 700 metres underground in Chile. … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Socialized medicine, epic fail?

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Don’t tell it to Chavecito’s Venezuela. They just graduated another big class of new doctors……meaning that 90% of Venezuelans now have access to public medical care, up from less than 40%, which it was when Chavecito was first elected in … Continue reading →

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Stupid Sex Tricks: Arrive alive…

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Sabina Becker

…don’t do this when you drive: Officer Ross Gilbert said the driver, Colondra Hamilton, a 36-year-old Downtown resident, was sitting with her pants unzipped and a sex toy in her lap.He said Hamilton told him she was using the toy … Continue reading →

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Put your hands up now…

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Sabina Becker

…for a Beyoncé parody that’s way better than the original:Pride, not plastic surgery. That’s the spirit, ladies!

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What really lies behind those trapped Chilean miners

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Sabina Becker

A little insight, courtesy of Telesur reporter Alejandro Kirk:The culprit, say miners and the family members of the trapped men, is the greed of Big Copper industrialists in Chile. Working conditions have always been atrocious for that very reason in … Continue reading →

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The Bush Crime Family’s tentacles in Cuba

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Thought you’d seen the last of Dubya when His Barackness kicked him oh-so-politely out of the White House, and hustled him and his minions onto that chopper to take him back to Crawford where he belonged? Think again. As long … Continue reading →

Posted in Barreling Right Along, BushCo Death Watch, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Economics for Dummies, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't That Illegal?, Law-Law Land, Obamarama!, The War on Terra, W is for Weak (and Stupid) | 1 Comment

I wouldn’t call it unpredictable

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Sabina Becker

I would, in fact, call this simply shameful: Canada’s position on human rights issues is becoming harder and harder to predict, says Amnesty International’s newly appointed boss.Salil Shetty said Monday that Canada is now taking drastically different positions in areas … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Tony Judt on language

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“Cultural insecurity begets its linguistic doppelgänger. The same is true of technical advance. In a world of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter (not to mention texting), pithy allusion substitutes for exposition. Where once the Internet seemed an opportunity for unrestricted communication, … Continue reading →

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