Category Archives: Isn’t That Illegal?

And the jokes just write themselves

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Ah, Michigan. Looks like you’re not just famous for ridiculous right-wing legislators anymore, but also for shit-stupid gun guys. Take, for instance, this poor bastard, who accidentally discovered irony while trying to compensate for his lack of endowments: A Michigan … Continue reading →

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How NOT to win friends and influence people

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Sabina Becker

I don’t know how much attention His Barackness pays to opinion polls, surveys and the like…but if I were in his shoes, I’d realize that this is very much an election year, and this is very much an election issue: … Continue reading →

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Miss Travel gets a miss, all right

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Leave it to the Daily Mail to test-drive a sleazy sounding website…and find out that it does, indeed, have that general whiff of hinkitude about it. Joanne Hegarty signed up for “Miss Travel”, a sugar-daddy website for pretty but broke … Continue reading →

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Fascism in Québec: What the major media won’t tell you

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Fortunately, ordinary citizens are stepping up to do what our lovely lamestream media can’t. Namely, report what is going on with some sense of honesty, and zero crapaganda: Incidentally, this fascism is failing. BADLY.

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Fascism Without Swastikas, Good to Know, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Karma 1, Dogma 0, Law-Law Land | 2 Comments

Cops Behaving Badly: Montréal, Chicago…have I missed a spot?

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Photo by C.S. Muncy, taken at Occupy Chicago’s anti-NATO demo. More here. Good morning, Chicago! How are you liking life in your police state this fine May day? Not at all? Don’t worry, Montréal knows exactly how you feel: “People … Continue reading →

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Rape and forced marriage in Morocco: A victim fights back

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Sabina Becker

A Moroccan poster denounces the forced marriage of child brides. A problem which, sadly, remains a fact of life in Morocco, even in cases of rape: The family of a 14-year-old girl in Tangier, Morocco, denounced the case of their … Continue reading →

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Imagine if this happened in Venezuela…

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Where is the IAP(O)A on this one, I wonder? When President Obama addressed the American Society of News Editors convention last month, the real news was what didn’t happen. The watchdogs didn’t bark. No discouraging word from the gathering of … Continue reading →

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Cops Behaving Badly: Drugging the Occupiers in Minneapolis

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Journalist and independent filmmaker Dan Feidt has produced a shocking documentary that accuses the Minneapolis police force of offering illegal drugs (and sometimes, cigarettes and/or food) to Occupy Minneapolis activists, in an effort to corrupt them and get them to … Continue reading →

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So much for the Great Liberal Conspiracy Theory!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Remember Vikileaks, when a certain adulterous SupposiTory got his comeuppance via the tweeting of publicly available details of his scandalous divorce? Sure you do. And now, the guy who tweeted those deets reveals all. And it isn’t what the SupposiTories … Continue reading →

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Harpo go home! (and smarten the fuck up already)

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Sabina Becker

First, a little music to set the mood: Ah, that was lovely. Now, the story: Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen were awakened by a major earthquake as they overnighted in Chile’s capital of Santiago. Buildings shook throughout … Continue reading →

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