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About sabasabas

I am a satirist, by day a high school English teacher. I write about fitness, lifestyles, politics, relationships, current events, and travel from my home base in tumultuous Tucson. I try to keep my finger on the pulse of the increasingly bizarre cultural and political scene, and fancy myself a pundit and watchdog. I like to connect the dots from city to regional, regional to national, etc. I like to write cautionary tales free from political correctness and embrace truth, warts and all.

Declaration of Dependence

Posted on September 18, 2013 by sabasabas

  As a public high school teacher, it’s difficult to blog about the state of education in Arizona without sounding like a whiner. After all, we are privileged enough to work with young people who are caring, talented, and enthusiastic … Continue reading →

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Terraplane Sun

Posted on September 12, 2013 by sabasabas

I rarely blog about music, because I’m not pretentious, full of crap, or a scene girl. Once in a while I like to pay verbal homage to a band which is firing on all pistons, though. Terraplane Sun, a top … Continue reading →

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The Scoop on The Dish

Posted on September 11, 2013 by sabasabas

  Gossip is a vaguely shameful dish which, like over-processed, pink slime-ridden fast food, should be consumed only rarely. It causes stomach ache, bloating, and indigestion while providing a false sense of fulfillment. Regular consumers of gossip soon find themselves … Continue reading →

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Proud to Work

Posted on September 9, 2013 by sabasabas

I was rocking my yard yesterday, and by that I don’t mean I was head-banging and playing air guitar, although to say I’ve never done that would be a lie. I was unloading and spreading a truckload of DG rock … Continue reading →

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Barbie Era

Posted on September 4, 2013 by sabasabas

Today, my students wrote about beauty. They’d been reading John Donne’s elegies, several of which are satirical poems which form a literary antithesis to Shakespeare’s sonnets. They are, in fact, hilarious: “Such are the sweat drops of my mistres’ breast, … Continue reading →

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Let Them Eat Popcorn

Posted on August 30, 2013 by sabasabas

Woody Allen’s new movie, Blue Jasmine, sent me into paroxysms of literary glee. His paean to Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire hit all of its marks and then some. I fully expect Cate Blanchett to win an Oscar for … Continue reading →

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Ethical Suicide: Three Contenders

Posted on August 22, 2013 by sabasabas

  Among the high-profile news stories that caught my attention this week, the Duncan, Oklahoma execution of a young Aussie baseball player looms large, while a nutbag would-be school shooter came in a close second, followed by the Ontario case … Continue reading →

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A Big Arriba For Nogales, Mexico

Posted on August 15, 2013 by sabasabas

  As a longtime Tucsonan, let me enumerate (or emunerate) five compelling reasons to head South, cross the border, and patronize our border city, Nogales, Sonora. Yes, little Timmy, the Nogales that’s in Mexico. One of the many reasons I … Continue reading →

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Privacy#notanissue#

Posted on August 14, 2013 by sabasabas

  Trapwire, NEC networks, smartphones as tracking devices, drones, wiretapping, spycams…our Cowardly New World seems to know no boundaries where privacy is concerned. This morning, my students and I were discussing spying as a motif in Hamlet, and extended the … Continue reading →

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Ewww!!

Posted on August 12, 2013 by sabasabas

The Andrew Weiner and Bob Filner sex scandals have hardly caused a ripple in the already-churning political waters where publicity of any sort is coveted. It’s as if the voting public merely sighs and slouches on toward an inevitable inertia … Continue reading →

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