Category Archives: Mexican Standoffs

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Happy Solstice, you heathens!

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Isn’t it nice to be a pagan and a rude infidel? We get spared all this silly apocalyptic crap that wasn’t going to happen anyway. No end-of-world panic or Great Disappointments for us. We get to hoist a tankard of … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse? NO.

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Sabina Becker

I doubt the Maya carved their intricate solar calendars just to freak out ignorant modern folks. But that seems to be the effect they’ve had. Meanwhile, scientists have other explanations for what they really mean: Mexican and foreign scientists have … Continue reading →

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Where have I heard THIS before?

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Dang, this sure sounds depressingly familiar: Labor abuses and insults have become too much to swallow for a group of immigrant women who work as waitresses on commission — getting lonely customers to buy them overpriced beers and tequila shots. … Continue reading →

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Paid provocateurs in Mexico City? Yup.

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Sabina Becker

A video taken over the weekend, during protests against the inauguration of Mexican president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto, reveals that a lot of so-called “anarchists”…aren’t: Members of an “anarchist” group arrested at 7:00 in the San Lázaro Metro station were paid … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Here comes Chente!

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Sabina Becker

A famous Mexican folk singer was in Venezuela yesterday, and guess who he met? Contrainjerencia has the story: The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, awarded the Order of the Liberator to the Mexican singer, Vicente Fernández, today during a private … Continue reading →

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The Translator’s Tale, or What I Learned From Lupita

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Well, today it finally became real. I have incontrovertible evidence that yes, I’m a professional translator now. And that makes me, in a sense, a published author with a byline, too. My contributor copies (ten in English, plus one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Canadian Counterpunch, Confessions of a Bad German, Economics for Dummies, Filthy Stinking Rich, Found in Translation, If You REALLY Care, Isn't It Ironic?, Law-Law Land, Mexican Standoffs, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, Teh Ghey, The United States of Amnesia, Uppity Wimmin, Writer Lady Sings the Blues | 7 Comments

Ahem.

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Notice anything here? That’s right, Your Humble Scribe is now a published translator, as well as author, poet, blogger, and general nogoodnik. And my genial publisher, Richard Grabman, is looking for people to review this work. We’re hoping to get … Continue reading →

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On “personhood” and what it means to be a non-person in Canada

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Sabina Becker

The Famous Five, gagged. This is what it’s coming down to, folks. Well. How about that “debate” in the House of Commons today? Or should I say, that NON-debate? Because the legal status of zygotes, embryos and fetuses in Canada … Continue reading →

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Pole dancing: for aficionados, it’s serious stuff

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Jenyne Butterfly shows what a world-champion pole dancer looks like. No platforms, no sequins, no lingerie, no raunch; just really good (and seriously sexy!) stuff. Yesterday, as part of my ongoing informal research into the world of a Mexican book … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Two million and counting!

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Ahem. Make that two and a HALF million… And now, the story from Aporrea: At 10:06 this morning, and three months shy of his second anniversary on Twitter, President Hugo Chávez made history as the most-followed head of state on … Continue reading →