Category Archives: Isn’t That Illegal?

Colombia’s disturbing virgin auctions

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Once again, Medellín makes the news for all the wrong reasons. Not only do they have a major problem with child sex trafficking from the city to mining camps in rural areas; as Rodrigo Martínez Arango reports in El Colombiano, … Continue reading →

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Stupid Sex Tricks: Where to wank in public

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Yay, Sweden. A court in Sweden has ruled that it is acceptable to masturbate in public as long as it is not directed at anyone. The ruling came in a landmark judgement following a case brought against a man seen … Continue reading →

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Tackling corruption, Venezuelan style

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Sabina Becker

There’s been a lot of very predictable babble up here about how corrupt Venezuela is, how the government there is going to fall, blah blah blabbity blah blah. But so far, I haven’t seen any of the anglo whore media … Continue reading →

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Rape culture? WHAT rape culture?

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Sabina Becker

I don’t see anything here… The trial for a University of Toronto architecture professor charged with sexual assault nearly two years ago began Thursday. James Andrew Payne was charged on Dec. 10, 2011 with one count of sexual assault. Payne, … Continue reading →

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Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the German Greens’ pedophile problem

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Sabina Becker

“I stand for sex with children! How about you?” Meet Daniel Cohn-Bendit. He’s a long-standing, high-ranking member of the German Green Party, as well as the Green faction chief in the Europarliament. And he’s also a major component of its … Continue reading →

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The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 34

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Sabina Becker

MariCori and Pretty Boy Leo…hereditary sellouts. Good evening, and welcome to tonight’s installment of VenOpIronía, in which we learn the meanings of two seemingly contradictory words — patriotismo and vendepatriotismo — which the Venezuelan opposition has conveniently fused into one … Continue reading →

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Dear “One pissed off mother!!!!”: You are an asshole.

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Dear woman who wrote the above letter to the grandmother of an autistic boy: You, madam, are an asshole. Clearly, on some level, you must be aware of this. You didn’t have the guts or the common decency to sign … Continue reading →

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The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 32

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Sabina Becker

“Me, full of shit?” Yes, YOU, Majunche! Well, well. What have we here? A certain failed two-time presidential candidate, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, accusing first the late Chavecito, then his successor the current president, of running a crooked … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: The Rodeo Clowns

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Memo to the Malheur County (Oregon) Sheriff’s Dept.: Instead of just turning your dashcams off, how about not incriminating YOURSELVES in the first place? Being a dumb cop is embarrassing, but being a corrupt one? Yup, that’s illegal. You’re supposed … Continue reading →

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A few random thoughts on the Manning verdict…and the Snowden case

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Sabina Becker

“I’ve been traumatized too much by reality to care about the consequences of shattering the fantasy.” — Bradley Manning It was a farce. Really, what other conclusion can I draw when a military judge decides that Bradley Manning was not … Continue reading →