Category Archives: Short ‘n’ Stubby

Short ‘n’ Stubby: Backwards ‘n’ forwards…

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Venezuela looks back 10 years to the Vargas tragedy, when heavy rains led to mudslides that killed tens of thousands in the coastal region. Video here, in Spanish, tells how the locals recovered and rebuilt the stricken zone with the … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Booby prize edition

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Sabina Becker

And today’s prize boobies are…Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress, for getting Honduras and Ecuador mixed up. Just because they both grow bananas for the Yew Ess of Ay, is no reason for a so-called foreign policy expert to flunk geography. … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Uppity Latin@s, everywhere you look

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Sabina Becker

La Hojilla brings together Venezuela’s two best curmudgeons in time for Yule! Much pwnage of oppos, corruptos and El Matacuras (who is both) ensues. Video en español–go curmudge to your heart’s content.And speaking of corrupto-pwnage in Venezuela, Chavecito is sticking … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Montréal memorial edition

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

CBC devotes an hour of its Sunday radio edition to voices of the Montréal Massacre. Among the interviewees are gun-control activist and engineer Heidi Rathjen, who was a student at the Polytechnique at the time and heard the gunshots from … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Subversives-R-Us

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Interesting (and disturbing) truths have come to light about CBS and McCarthyism. Who knew that a blacklister could win a civil rights award? This is right up there with Elia Kazan being honored after naming names. (Thanks to King Daevid … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Bummerama

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Maybe I should have used a pic of a Rumpy Manx instead of this Stumpie? You tell me…The UK Sun is all agush with the “news” that oil has been “discovered” (again!) in the Falklands/Malvinas/whatever those little rocks in the … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Hell on Wheels edition

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Wanda Sykes takes on Tiger Woods. He better be thankful she doesn’t play golf, because this smart funny lady never misses.A certain Canadian mining company claims to be in business to benefit the indigenous people of Mexico, but a dead … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Snips, snaps and snark

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Sabina Becker

It’s World AIDS Day, and to celebrate, Uganda’s government is mulling a bill to mandate the death penalty for gay sex. The driving influence? “Evangelicals from abroad”, according to one Anglican bishop. These same evangelicals and their parliamentary buddies are … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: All Honduras, all day long…

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Most of these links are in Spanish, so if you don’t understand, don’t worry. I’ll précis them very precisely…Mel sez these illegitimate elections are a farce and that “the people will say no to the dictatorship”. He also sez that … Continue reading →

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: A little bit of this, a little bit of that…

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Some small odds ‘n’ ends I couldn’t go longer about:Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, heartily sympathizes with Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat who found Afghanistan to be no better. He also demolishes all pro-torture arguments very nicely. Thanks … Continue reading →