Author Archives: Sabina Becker

Teh Heterostoopid: How NOT to do target practice

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Sabina Becker

I believe this qualifies as “reckless endangerment”. (It certainly would if he were facing down an actual enemy.)

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Quotable: Albert Einstein on age, youth and activism

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“I believe that older people who have scarcely anything to lose ought to be willing to speak out in behalf of those who are young and who are subject to much greater restraint.”–Albert Einstein, in a letter to Queen Mother … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Evo in Paraguay

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Evo’s in Asunción today. The occasion? The 199th anniversary of Paraguayan independence from Spain. The cause? Latin American solidarity.And of course, he got a warm reception from his amigo, Lugo:…who, like Evo, knows how to rock a no-collar, no-tie suit.

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Wouldn’t it be great if everybody had a gun?

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Sing along with me!“Nobody would get shot–cuz everybody’d have a gun!”

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Stupid Sex Tricks: That’s not what’s meant…

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Sabina Becker

…by “going at it like bunnies”:And srsly, that is a LOUSY method of foreplay.

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And it makes perfect panini, too

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Sabina Becker

The iPad: an ideal toy for driving your kitty crazy.

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Quotable: Noam Chomsky on anti-government propaganda

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“Encouraging anti-tax sentiment has long been a staple of business propaganda. People must be indoctrinated to hate and fear the government, for good reasons: Of the existing power systems, the government is the one that in principle, and sometimes in … Continue reading →

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We are all Greeks now, or soon will be

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“Arrival of Lord Byron at Missolonghi”, by Theodoros P. Vryzakis, 1861. National Gallery of Athens, Greece. The English Romantic poet sailed with his own fleet of ships as an aid agent of the London Committee in December of 1823, and … Continue reading →

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Gee thanks, Dubya–FOR NOTHING. Love, Uganda.

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Sabina Becker

A typical USAID-sponsored anti-AIDS ad in Uganda; it tackles sex, not ignorance, and certainly not microbes. This is the “miracle” that was touted so highly just a few years ago. Now look how it’s falling apart… Uganda is the first … Continue reading →

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Bumper sticker du jour

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Thanks to Tigana Too.

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