Category Archives: Oceania

Cops Behaving Badly: How NOT to get new recruits

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Do I really need to elaborate on what’s wrong with this recruitment poster? Didn’t think so.

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Teh Ghey: Koalas haz it…

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Sabina Becker

And Aussie scientists know all about it. Apparently it’s very commonplace among those cuddly critters: THE two koalas who stole the limelight from tennis great Andy Roddick with an enthusiastic mating session are both female.The same-sex marsupial couple is now … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Because ‘Bina’s feelin’ badass today

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Two from the badass-est band of the ’80s:This feast is an orgy. There’s even a couple of pussies on the table.This one’s got everything: sharp social commentary, motorbikes–and a sax player in groovy horn-rims.

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Stupid Sex Tricks: Could this be why they’re going extinct?

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Sabina Becker

This kakapo, an endangered species of flightless parrot, gives us a clue as to why there are so few of his kind left: They’re damned annoying!Somebody, please, find him a lady kakapo before nature journalists also become an endangered species!

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Quotable: Joe Sudbay on the March of the Teabags

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Sabina Becker

“I’d like to make a friendly suggestion to the teabaggers: Get a hobby, do some volunteer work, or better yet work out and get some exercise. These people need lives. They were a stream of vitriol walking to the Capitol. … Continue reading →

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Swine flu: How profitable at such an opportune time…

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Maybe Tamiflu should be called RummyFlu?How profitable? Very, according to YVKE Mundial and Telesur: The transnational drug companies Roche and GlaxoSmithKline are the only two laboratories that produce oseltamivir and zanamivir, used to treat patients with swine flu. Oseltamivir, produced … Continue reading →

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Men Who Just Don’t Get It: The Preacher Man from Down Under

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

I feel for Australia right now. Not only do they have dozens of bushfires and nearly 200 gruesome deaths to deal with, they also have fundamentalist fools who insist on twisting the tragedy to their own ends. Case in point: … Continue reading →

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Citizen’s arrest for the Shoe Queen?

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Let’s hope so. A $5000 dollar reward is being offered to any Auckland University student who can make a successful citizen’s arrest of United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the country this weekend.Auckland University Student … Continue reading →

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Hideous tanorexia strikes again!

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Sabina Becker

“Oh God, I won a rhinestone tiara for one whole year! All the torture has been worth it!” Well, here’s a foregone conclusion that I wish the world could forego: Once again, a totally un-Venezuelan-looking Miss Venezuela has been crowned … Continue reading →

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A legal precedent worth noting…

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Sabina Becker

…wherever you are. In this case, it’s Australia punching a big, fat hole in the Religious Reich’s anti-gay agenda: Christian organisations in all states and territories may have lost the right to discriminate against gay people despite religious exemptions in … Continue reading →

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