“We are the people who run this country.
We are the deciders. And every single day,
every single one of us needs to step outside
and take some action to help stop this war.”
–Molly Ivins, sorely and sadly missed
News of the Restless A door at the end of a dead-end street…
A tale of two marches
January 31, 2007 — Sabina BeckerTell me, dear friend: have you heard about the March for Life? You know–the one that took place this year, as it does every year, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade? It is awfully hard to miss an annual display of in-your-face anti-choice propaganda when even the president of the United States has proclaimed this date to be National Sanctity of Life Day.
But I guess you probably haven’t heard of it after all. Because to hear Donald Wildmon and his trusty sidekick tell it, the event wasn’t even covered by the liberal-biased mainstream media!
Okay, this is really stupid, but…
January 30, 2007 — Sabina Becker…I just couldn’t resist this headline: “Scott Baio Blames Pam’s Breasts for End of Their Relationship”.
Former teen heartthrob Scott Baio says his relationship with Canadian beauty Pamela Anderson ended when she decided to get her breasts enlarged.
"One day Pamela came home and said, ‘I’m thinking of getting my boobs done.’ Admittedly, I was surprised. My initial response, ‘Reduced?’ She already had large, beautiful, natural breasts," he recalls. "At that moment I knew our relationship would soon begin to crumble. Pamela had finally gone Hollywood — or whatever it is that happens when a woman becomes a hot celebrity."
Why are they doing this?
January 30, 2007 — Sabina BeckerUh, this must be part of that “culture of life” I always hear right-wingers babbling on about.
The city of Miami is planning an official celebration at the Orange Bowl for whenever Cuban President Fidel Castro dies.
Discussions by a committee appointed earlier this month by the city commission to plan the event have even covered issues such as a theme to be printed on T-shirts, what musicians would perform, the cost and how long the celebration would last.
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito in Brazil
January 26, 2007 — Sabina Becker
Time (reluctantly) gives Chavecito credit where due
January 26, 2007 — Sabina BeckerOh, my gawd. What is it with Time magazine’s attitude toward Hugo Chavez? They couldn’t make him their Person of the Year; that privilege is reserved for actual dictators and nonentities like “you”, not admirable democratic socialists out to change the world for the better. But at last, they searched their groins and found the gonads to print something somewhat true about him, although you’d never know it to look at the title: “Is Chavez Becoming Castro?”
To read the opening paragraph, you’d swear the answer was a resounding yes:
Hugo Chavez has gone through more chiefs of staff than Venezuela has had Miss Universes — which is quite a few. So when the Venezuelan President tapped his older brother Adan for the job last year, few outside Miraflores Palace took notice. They should have. Adan, since then appointed education minister, is Hugo’s chief Marxist consultant — and a driving force behind Chavez’s harder-than-usual left turn since his re-election last month. Chavez has announced plans to shut down an opposition-run TV network and nationalize Venezuela’s largest telephone and electricity firms, while pushing his rubber-stamp Congress to allow him to run for re-election indefinitely and rule by decree well into 2008. It’s no wonder Chavez watchers compare Adan to Latin America’s other conspicuous First Brother, Raul Castro, who would succeed Fidel.
Talking to Americans, Australian edition?
January 25, 2007 — Sabina BeckerRick Mercer, watch out. Here’s a comedian claiming to be Prime Minister John Howard–and NO ONE catches on. But they sure do say the darndest things.
