Author Archives: Sabina Becker

Bruce McArthur’s 8th victim has been identified

Toronto police detective sergeant Hank Idsinga gives a press conference in which the identity of a “John Doe”, shown in photos taken from the hard drive of Bruce McArthur’s home computer, is now revealed. The victim is Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, … Continue reading

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Music for a Sunday (Night): The heart of the restless kind

One for all my fellow stay-up-laters out there: Move on…

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Mexican boxer brings down Donnie’s great white hope

Oh, this is just too good not to share: And yes, I am totally feeling the Schadenfreude here.

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Want a good husband? Don’t marry a conservative. (Redux)

Further to yesterday’s post, here’s a little nugget that came up in my YouTube recommendations this morning: Yeah, how about that Eric Fucking Greitens, eh? Kidnapping, sexual assault, privacy invasion, blackmail…about all he hasn’t done is knock over a liquor … Continue reading

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Want a good husband? Don’t marry a conservative.

Farron Cousins has the data, which may or may not surprise you, depending: Yeah, what a shocker, eh? Guys who moralize the loudest tend to have the most to hide in terms of immorality and hypocrisy. The more they preach … Continue reading

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Why did Omar Mateen shoot up the Pulse nightclub?

Cenk Uygur has the facts, and they’re not what we’ve been hearing all this time: And yes, he’s doing what all responsible journalists SHOULD do, which is retract the false parts of the story, and proceed to set the record … Continue reading

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Are Dubya and his war criminals suddenly respectable?

You might be forgiven for thinking so, but Jimmy Dore doesn’t: And neither do I. Dubya is still a dick, even if Donnie is a bigger one. David Fucking Frum may sound suddenly reasonable right now, but remember, he’s the … Continue reading

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Alex Jones’s ex speaks out

I missed this video while my pute was in the shop, but I still think it’s worth posting: What sort of person was Alex Jones behind the scenes? Well, according to his former wife, Kelly, he didn’t use to be … Continue reading

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Quotable: Ursula K. Le Guin on gender-neutral pronouns

“I still dislike invented pronouns, but I now dislike them less than the so-called generic pronoun he/him/his, which does in fact exclude women from discourse; and which was an invention of male grammarians, for until the sixteenth century the English … Continue reading

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Did a recently caught gay serial killer also kill in the 1970s?

CBC’s The Fifth Estate examines Bruce McArthur and some still “unsolved” killings that took place in Toronto’s gay community as far back as the 1970s. If you think the Seventies were a “swinging” time, you probably got that (largely false) … Continue reading

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