Monthly Archives: November 2013

Oh shit, are we doomed?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Sabina Becker

A performer at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England, plays a primitive tuba found in the ancient Viking part of town. According to Norse myth, the sounding of a certain specific horn heralds doom: The horn belonged to the … Continue reading →

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The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 37

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Gloria Torcat, councilwoman in Arismendi, Nueva Esparta, was beaten up on Saturday by two assailants on motorbikes. Oh, that Venezuelan opposition. So unified. So democratic. So totally above beating people up. They keep telling us that’s for those nasty, rotten … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: The secret voices of crickets

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Sabina Becker

I’ve often joked about the deafening silence of people who’ve been caught in their lies, using “crickets” as the metaphor for the only thing to be heard. I may have to stop doing that, because here is what crickets “say” … Continue reading →

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Wankers of the Week: Robbo eats WHAT?

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! Guess I don’t need to tell you what’s on the menu at Rob Fucking Ford’s house, eh? Yeah, he really said that. And upon hearing, an entire city lost its collective appetite…for just about everything. It’s pretty … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: In the footsteps of the Comandante

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Sabina Becker

At an official grand opening in Valencia (Carabobo) recently, there was a silent but very popular guest of honor: While Madurito was carrying on in his predecessor’s vein, opening highways and housing projects financed by the state’s oil revenues, Chavecito’s … Continue reading →

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There is no joy in Leamington tonight.

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Sabina Becker

It’s been a sad day in Canada’s ketchup town…although no doubt some corporate titan in a head office far away was just putting his wingtips up and blowing smoke rings on his fat cigar over this: In Leamington, Ont., a … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Dr. David Suzuki on the biosphere

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Sabina Becker

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Did the CBC do propaganda-for-pay?

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Sabina Becker

I dunno…you tell me: I always did find that particular Mansbridge “report” awfully Harpo-friendly (and uncharacteristically so). And conveniently timed, too, as the above video says, with Pooty-Poot laying his own claims to the North Pole’s seabed and all that … Continue reading →

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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 →