Category Archives: Isn’t It Ironic?

Quotable: Paul Krugman on wages

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Sabina Becker
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Prostitution in Germany: hard facts, hard debate, harder thoughts

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Sabina Becker

(Photo: EMMA.) German FEMEN demonstrators outside the largest brothel in the cathedral city of Köln. They consider prostitution a human rights abuse, and hold up human trafficking, rampant in Germany, as an example of how liberalization of laws governing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Confessions of a Bad German, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Economics for Dummies, EuroPeons, Free Trade, My Ass!, Good to Know, Isn't It Ironic?, Law-Law Land, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, Scandinavian Smorgasbord, Under the Name of Spain, Uppity Wimmin | 5 Comments

Festive Left Friday Blogging: El Ecuadorable is full of win

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Sabina Becker

You can’t keep a good president down…or shut him up. And why would you want to, when he empowers his own people to speak out, too? Especially not when he just won a very important prize for doing just that? … Continue reading →

Posted in All About Evo, Crapagandarati, Don't Cry For Argentina, Ecuadorable As Can Be, Fascism Without Swastikas, Festive Left Friday Blogging, Filthy Stinking Rich, Huguito Chavecito, Isn't It Ironic?, Karma 1, Dogma 0, Newspeak is Nospeak, Socialism is Good for Capitalism! | Comments Off on Festive Left Friday Blogging: El Ecuadorable is full of win

Don’t back down, Justin!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Sabina Becker

What’s wrong with what Justin Trudeau said here? I’ll give you a broad hint: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. En effet, c’est tout correct: The remarks in question come from an interview Trudeau did in Nov. 2010, with French-language interviewer Patrick Lagace, on … Continue reading →

Posted in Barreling Right Along, Canadian Counterpunch, Crapagandarati, Economics for Dummies, Environmentally Ill, Filthy Stinking Rich, Isn't It Ironic?, Morticia! You Spoke French!, Socialism is Good for Capitalism!, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off on Don’t back down, Justin!

Oh dear. Bad times in Fascist Country!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Poor fascists, how my heart bleeds for them. They’re in trouble just about everywhere nowadays, it seems. From my friend Anthony in Sweden comes this gem about some local Nazis-in-all-but-name and a kerfuffle they got into last week: The Sweden … Continue reading →

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There is NO such thing as “ex-gay”.

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Wouldn’t it be nice if such a switch existed? If you could go from Gay to Not Gay as easily and painlessly as turning off a light? Sadly, it doesn’t exist. And being gay doesn’t work that way. And trying … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging Too: Rafael Correa visits Seville

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Rafael Correa meets with the Mayor of Seville, in Spain. And that’s not all he’s up to over there: Rafael Correa arrived yesterday afternoon at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, accompanied by crowds. He came to tell how Ecuador … Continue reading →

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The Petraeus scandal widens

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Meet another possible participant in the Petraeus affair…one whose strange behavior came to light in the course of the FBI’s investigation into some other strange behavior: US general John Allen, chief of the NATO mission in Afghanistan, is being investigated … Continue reading →

Posted in Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind, BushCo Death Watch, Crapagandarati, Fascism Without Swastikas, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Spooks, The 'Stans, The United States of Amnesia, The War on Terra, The WTF? Files | Comments Off on The Petraeus scandal widens

A few random thoughts on a former general

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Sabina Becker

I have a terrible confession to make: When the news of the Petraeus sex scandal broke this past week, my first reaction was to chuckle. Not in the usual “ha ha, another cheatypants got caught, serves him right” sense (although … Continue reading →

Posted in Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind, Barreling Right Along, BushCo Death Watch, Crapagandarati, Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Isn't It Ironic?, Law-Law Land, Newspeak is Nospeak, Schadenfreude, Spooks, The 'Stans, The United States of Amnesia, The War on Terra | 4 Comments

The Koch Bros are getting desperate, I see.

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Sabina Becker

When they have to take out ads for crapaganda sites like this, you know that Big Oil’s corrupting influence barons are running scared. And is that a tip of the hand as to which side of the recent election they … Continue reading →

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