Category Archives: The United States of Amnesia

Quotable: Theodore Roosevelt on personal responsibility

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Sabina Becker

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Sabotage in the Colombia peace process?

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Sabina Becker

I wouldn’t be surprised…and neither would this guy: Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa alerted that revelations surrounding the participation of the United States in the 2008 attack against Colombian guerrillas on Ecuadorian soil could be a trap for boycotting the peace … Continue reading →

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Police Navidad!

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Sabina Becker

“When I blew, I blew a 2.1”? Silly gringo, that’s nothing. Check out what these Mexicans did: The Secretariat of Public Security for the Federal District admitted 43 drivers to the Centre of Penal Administrative Sanctions, a.k.a. El Torito, on … Continue reading →

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How many trolls does $1 billion a year buy?

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Sabina Becker

I don’t know, and neither do you. But I bet the Koch Brothers do… Conservative groups may have spent up to $1bn a year on the effort to deny science and oppose action on climate change, according to the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Barreling Right Along, Bullies, Economics for Dummies, Environmentally Ill, Filthy Stinking Rich, Free Trade, My Ass!, Law-Law Land, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, She Blinded Me With Science, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off

But racism is over, you guyz!

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Really! The Repug Party said so… So why doesn’t anyone believe it? Well, maybe because of shit like this… A dream weekend of fun and dancing with top industry professionals turned into a waking nightmare for 13-year-old Landry Thompson when … Continue reading →

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Why the JFK assassination still matters today

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Sabina Becker

It was 50 years ago today, and a few years before I was born. It happened in Dealey Plaza, Dallas — and it could happen again, anywhere, anytime. A president was shot and killed, and a state governor badly wounded. … Continue reading →

Posted in Angry Pacifist Speaks Her Mind, Crapagandarati, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Fascism Without Swastikas, Filthy Stinking Rich, Isn't It Ironic?, Isn't That Illegal?, Spooks, The United States of Amnesia | Comments Off

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Remembrance Day story

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Join me for a moment of getting-unstuck-in-time, won’t you? That was Kurt Vonnegut, reading one of the weirdest and loveliest passages in all of his work: Billy Pilgrim’s time-slip in Slaughterhouse-Five. Billy is waiting for the flying saucer to take … Continue reading →

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Venezuela to Twitter: You fucked us, now FUCK YOU.

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Twitter stats for Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, showing a sudden drop-off and subsequent rise in followers due to a mass suspension and later reinstatement of Venezuelan Twitter accounts. The other day, on my post about Rob Ford’s crack pipe, … Continue reading →

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Look who visited Franco’s tomb…

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Sabina Becker

No, it’s not a tumah. It’s the Gropenator, at the tomb of Spain’s most notorious historic villain… Here you have it. Arnold Schwarzenegger himself, actor and ex-governor of California, before the tomb of Francisco Franco. All of this occurred last … Continue reading →

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Media Luna-cy: Older than previously thought

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Everybody knows that the governors of the “Media Luna” (Half Moon) of the richest (and crookedest) regions of Bolivia first began to conspire in 2008, after Evo was in power (and as an attempt to get him out of power … Continue reading →