Category Archives: Isn’t It Ironic?

Music for a Sunday: Don’t run away…

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Sabina Becker

…it’s only me: Yeah, I know, this is totally cheesy. And the Day of the Dead was yesterday. I wanted to put this on last week, except that Lou Reed gazumped me. But hey! Remember when MTV played actual MUSIC? … Continue reading →

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The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 36

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Oh, Majunche. The harder you try to bring down the elected president, the more it backfires on you. Case in point: The video above. And here’s the story: On Tuesday, at 6 a.m., residents of Los Teques, capital of the … Continue reading →

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The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 35

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Letters discarded by Henrique Capriles Radonsky, during his last failed presidential campaign. Will he do the same with letters to the pope this time around? Ah, the Venezuelan opposition. So pious. So democratic. So responsive to the voices of the … Continue reading →

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Look who visited Franco’s tomb…

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Sabina Becker

No, it’s not a tumah. It’s the Gropenator, at the tomb of Spain’s most notorious historic villain… Here you have it. Arnold Schwarzenegger himself, actor and ex-governor of California, before the tomb of Francisco Franco. All of this occurred last … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Winona LaDuke on water terrorism

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Sabina Becker

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Media Luna-cy: Older than previously thought

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Everybody knows that the governors of the “Media Luna” (Half Moon) of the richest (and crookedest) regions of Bolivia first began to conspire in 2008, after Evo was in power (and as an attempt to get him out of power … Continue reading →

Posted in All About Evo, Chile Sin Queso, Crapagandarati, Economics for Dummies, Environmentally Ill, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Isn't That Racist?, The United States of Amnesia | 2 Comments

So, THIS exists.

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Sabina Becker

And even worse, it’s a mascot for a Japanese cooling company based in Osaka, but named for Fukushima. Ironically, it has nothing to do with the infamous nuclear plant there. Yeah, I’d say someone fukked up, all right.

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This just in…

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Literary talent: We (meaning Canadian women) haz it… Canadian author Alice Munro has won the prestigious Nobel Prize for literature. The Swedish Academy announced the decision Thursday, calling the 82-year-old author from Wingham, Ont., a “master of the contemporary short … Continue reading →

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Remembering Cantaura, 31 years later

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Sabina Becker

A poster from 2009 commemorating the victims of the “democratic” massacre of Cantaura, Venezuela, which occurred 31 years ago. This is all of a pattern with US interference throughout Latin America. While Argentina and Chile suffered openly under fascist dictators … Continue reading →

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An open letter to David Gilmour, plus a partial reading list

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Dear David Gilmour: May I call you Dave? Because, by your own admission, you’re not really a prof, seeing as you don’t have a Ph.D. and your “teaching” experience comes courtesy of TV, that not-at-all-superficial-or-unidimensional medium that makes everybody feel … Continue reading →