Author Archives: Sabina Becker

Music for a Sunday: The Ballad of Hugo Chávez

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Sabina Becker

A little birdie told me this song won some kind of award. No kidding! What a rum old world.

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Wankers of the Week: Crappy St. Patrick’s Day!

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“They’re after me Lucky Charms!”Faith and begorra, what a bog-load of crap we have to wade through this week. I was going to write limericks for the occasion, but then I realized I needed a bigger and blunter shillelagh, so … Continue reading →

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Ozzie Guillén moons the homefolks on the tweeter

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Sabina Becker

And oh, what a lovely ass that man has:Did someone forget where he came from? Aporrea thinks so: That Oswaldo Guillén doesn’t agree with the government of President Chávez is understandable. You can see that since he acquired US citizenship … Continue reading →

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Stupid Sex Tricks: Whatever happened to soap and water?

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Going au naturel: a do. Special products for the purpose: a do-you-really-have-to-ask?(And check out the price tag on that stuff, too. Eek!)

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Stupid Sex Tricks: I think I can read HER mind…

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Not that it’s terribly difficult…

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Quotable: Paul Rogat Loeb on Rosa Parks and the value of persistence

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“Our culture’s misreading of the Rosa Parks story speaks to a more general collective amnesia, where we forget the examples that might most inspire our courage, hope, and conscience. Of the abolitionist and civil rights movements, we at best recall … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Who’s afraid of a little shake?

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Not Evo…his dimpled smile stayed firmly affixed as the earth was rocking in Chile yesterday:He’s with Lugo (middle) and El Ecuadorable (right) during Sebastián Piñera’s inauguration ceremony. A magnitude 6.9 quake–believed to be an aftershock of the big one from … Continue reading →

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Sean Penn sets Bill Maher straight on Venezuela

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Sabina Becker

The actor/director/activist/journalist talks about Haiti, human rights…and about midway through, Douchebag Bill brings up a “dictator” named “Hewgo Shavezz”. Sean’s answer may surprise many who’ve bought into the same media campaigns as the Douchebag obviously has. For one thing, he … Continue reading →

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Teh Heterostoopid: Parents to be glad you don’t have

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Sabina Becker

One learns so much about other people’s traumatic upbringings when looking through the ol’ (okay, NEWish) Failbook, does one not?Here, for example, is someone who’s gonna wonder why her sweet little son suddenly hates her when he hits his teens:And … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Democracy 1, Crapitalism 0

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Ms. Manx is back…with some links from a place you probably never think of unless there’s a Björk song playing on the radio:An unprecedented referendum was recently held in Iceland, and confirmed that 93% of Icelanders are not stupid when … Continue reading →