Okay…I have to admit, I thought this was very clever at first. A sexy beer ad that objectifies…MEN, for a change?
Now, tell me what exactly is wrong with this picture. Can you see it? Look closely…between the “legs”.
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Author: Sabina Becker
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Happy Birthday Che!
He would have been 83 this week, had he lived…but really, he’s immortal. Hasta siempre, Comandante.
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Broadway: It’s not just for gays anymore!
(And look! Doogie Howser can SING! And so can Stephen Colbert and Brooke Shields!)
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An enigmatic image from last night’s post-hockey riots apparently has CBC in a twit-storm: Actually, I like this image a lot better than the ones of rioters jumping on cop-cars. It’s a much truer reflection of what Vancouverites (and Canadians in general) are normally like. And no, rioting is NOT due to anarchy OR “just […]
Continue reading“Don’t keep looking for your brother, they threw him from a helicopter”
Pura Soto Rojas points to a headline: “SHOT”. It refers to the deaths, by secret firing squad, of leftist guerrillas during the “democratic” years of the Fourth Republic. Years which were not so democratic in fact, as the tragic story of her brother Víctor Ramón makes clear: “Víctor Ramón was born in Altagracia de Orituco […]
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Might be a brave new world…
…but it’s really not my home:
For me, this is the song that started a lot: my love for the music (and social justice activism) of Tom Cochrane, and oh yeah: my interest in Neruda, for whom the album that this song came from was named. A st…
Continue readingWankers of the Week: Weiners, wieners and just plain dicks
Crappy weekend, everyone! So, how are you liking Schlongergate? Yeah, me neither. But at least it spawned some funny toons, which I’ve put to good use here. Not everyone on this list has something to do with the flaccid scandal of the week, but all of these wankers are wieners or dicks in one way […]
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What do I have against the “humanitarian intervention” of NATO in Libya? Lots of things. This video contains a clue as to some of them: So, let’s recap: So far, no Gaddafi. Their main target (as declared by NATO) remains strangely elusive, considering all the “smart” weaponry they’ve supposedly deployed against him. All this for […]
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging Too: Brigette has NOT left Ottawa yet!
Here she is, speaking at today’s “Stop Harper” rally:
Photo courtesy Dylan Penner, via Twitter.
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: Ollanta Presidente!
My gosh, the dominoes are just tumbling in Latin America, aren’t they? It’s getting so that you’d hardly recognize the place anymore. First it was Venezuela, then Bolivia and Ecuador. Argentina and (for a while) Chile have had some progressive types, too. Brazil is now on its second one. And Paraguay got a “red” ex-bishop, […]
Continue readingSo, “Arab Spring” was the wrong thing for Brigette to say?
Funny, but actual Egyptians don’t think so: The Arab Spring, they say, isn’t about ballot boxes, it’s about the dignity of humanity. Something the Harper Government™ doesn’t respect, and probably never did. While we’re at it, let’s compare and contrast some other right and wrong ways to look at what Brigette did. First, the wrong […]
Continue readingAh, memories!
This video, from 1990, shows Rush Limbaugh filling in for Pat Sajak on the latter’s short-lived (if you blinked, you missed it) TV talk show…and getting clobbered, metaphorically speaking, by an anything-but-captive audience: In the first segment, the Pigman tries to tackle the subject of abortion. He uses a Ms. Potato Head doll to represent […]
Continue readingStupid Sex Tricks: Greece Has Talent
OMG, what do they put in the ouzo? It makes guys musical in all the, uh, most interesting places:
Very nice, fellas! Do you do requests? I wanna hear “Zorba’s Dance”.
Continue reading“Shame on you!”
Hotel maids in New York turned out en masse to protest Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a legal hearing. I wonder if the French press considers things like this to be “barbaric” and “vulgar”, too.
Continue readingShort ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx loves Brigette!
Hark! What’s that I hear? A stump-tailed kitty meowing? That can only mean one thing: Ms. Manx has been prowling the Internets again. Whatcha got for us, kitty? Ooooo…good stuff: First off, Ms. Manx wishes to express her extreme disappointment with Sharon Carstairs, whom she always thought was smarter than this: Carstairs said she would […]
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: It was cold outside my door
Dear Diary: I’m feeling introspective today. Must be all the clouds… “Dear Diary: It was cold today. But the Sun came out later, so I went out and strolled about looking at the shops. Didn’t really see anything I liked, so I didn’t buy anything. On the way home, I posted a letter. Been quite […]
Continue readingWankers of the Week: Rolling Blunder, and other tours de farce
Crappy June, everyone! Are you enjoying the weather? And say, how about that rolling thunder? You’ll be hearing a lot more of it, due to global warming. (Thunderstorms and violent weather are, after all, heat-driven.) Know who else is generating a lot of hot air to no purpose? These wankers, that’s who… 1. Sarah Fucking […]
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: Iconic photo du jour
Sorry, no Chavecito, Evo or El Ecuadorable today; don’t worry, they’ll be back next week (or whenever). I just got wind of this one via the tweeter, and it is AWESOME. From the floor of our very own Senate: Brigette Marcelle DePape may be out of a job as a Senate page, but she just […]
Continue readingManuel Zelaya returns; Honduras coup revisited
This marks the first step in the reversal of the Honduran coup of 2009. Mel is back, and dialogue is ON, babies: Part 1 of several; keep clicking through for the rest. Note that Mel’s plane is one from the fleet of the Venezuelan national airline, Conviasa. Chavecito and his neighbor, Juan Manuel Santos of […]
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