Ordinarily, there’s just one asshole of the week, but this has been an exceptionally busy week… Asshole of the Week 4th Runner-Up: “The Juice” O.J. Simpson. Earlier this week it was reported that O.J. Simpson believes Khloe Kardashian is his biological daughter (her mother, Mama Kardashian, had an affair with O.J. when her husband Robert…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Does 9/11 Still Matter? And, For That Matter, Do Islamic Terrorists?
By asking if 9/11 still matters, I don’t mean in the way a Civil War battle will always be historically noted nor in the way December 7th, 1941 will always live in infamy. I’m asking if it still matters in a major, organic way in people’s lives and the way they make decisions. Yesterday marked…
September’s Book of the Month Club Selection Is…Amy Waldman’s The Submission!
Usually, whenever I start the month I have no clue what that month’s pick will be. I run down a list of books I’ve read in the last six months (or am currently reading) and narrow down to one I think is the strongest for that month. None of that is true for Amy Waldman’s…
TV Reviews: Totally Biased, Web Therapy, and Episodes
As we gear up for the new Fall season (which, to be honest, doesn’t seem like a particularly strong crop this year), let’s take a look at some “in-between” shows that clean up during the low competition months. Totally Biased…This is W. Kamau Bell’s new show on FX, and if you don’t know who that…
Movie Review: “Obama 2016″…When Campaign Attack Ads Pretend To Be Movies
Speaking of negative movie portrayals of interracial couples (as per my Hit and Run review), now we get a “documentary” about Obama’s doomed childhood, heavily influenced by his white mother and African father’s tumultuous marriage, and his father’s belief system. This “documentary” (and, from what I understand, documentaries are supposed to be non-fiction films) is made…
Movie Review: Hit and Run
This is a movie that not many have seen (it tanked at the box office) and probably not many have even heard of it either. It stars Dax Shepard as a former getaway driver for bank robberies (a great “movie job” that may not exist in real life as most bank robbers would do their…
Mom Jokes: Will You Live to See 80?
An old woman was exhaustively tested by her new doctor. He told the 70-year-old that she was “Doing well for her age.” A little concerned about that comment, she asked him “Do you think I’ll live to see 80?” He asked her “Do you smoke tobacco or marijuana? Drink beer, wine, or hard liquor?” “Oh…
From Arthur Davis to Mia Love, the New (Black) Face of Republican’s Racial Politics
The title of this article has a pretty obvious double meaning. In the “good old days” that some of the GOP still lives in, it was considered a source of entertainment to have white people paint their faces black and say ridiculously racist things while “impersonating” black people, or, more accurately, a racist’s idea of a black…
Do the Most Divisive Presidential Candidates Usually Win? Recently, Yes
If there’s one thing that’s become painfully obvious about this race, it’s that people just don’t like Romney. I know, I know, “but you’re a Democrat! Of course you don’t like Romney!” Which may be technically true, but I’m actually pretty neutral on the man. He doesn’t seem like the devil incarnate (although I do think there…
Reviewing HBO’s Summer Documentaries Series…
For the last couple summers, HBO has featured a Monday night documentary series. They show a different doc every week, and I’m glad they do. Still, I think last year’s crop (that included the hilarious wannabe superheroes doc, the fascinating Afghanistan women’s prison doc Love Crimes in Kabul, and the excellent expose of our legal…
Will The Democrats Do Anything Stupid (like Pull an Eastwood) at the Convention?
As the Democratic National Convention kicks into a higher gear, the question on everyone’s mind (at least, those that really only follow politics for the sensationalism…which is pretty much every political reporter and blogger on the planet) is “Will there be an ‘Eastwood’ moment?” By that, what they’re really wondering is “Will there be a batshit crazy…
Entertainment Editorial: With Summer Over, How Did My Movie Predictions Turn Out?
Roughly four months back, I made a list of the ten movies I was most excited to see, the five I was most on the fence about, and, of course, the five I was least excited to see. Now that summer is officially over, and we’re getting into the best movie season (the Fall and…
Entertainment Editorial: How The Five Seasons of Breaking Bad Mirror the Five Stages of Dying
As every other Breaking Bad fan gets ready for tonight’s final episode (of this year…with the final eight ever playing next summer), I thought I might share an observation I’ve noticed about the five seasons. The main plot of the show: a mild-mannered, brilliant (and perpetually under appreciated) high school chemistry teacher gets cancer and…