We’re past the quarter mark for the year and about to head into “The Summer Movie Season” where everything is exploding, animated, or includes dick jokes, but (let’s be honest) since we never really leave that season anymore and Hollywood makes blockbusters (or big flops like John Carter) year-round, we can’t just ignore the late…
Author: Alabama Liberal
TV Review: “Eastbound and Down” a TV Comedy that Takes You On a Journey (Plus, “Life’s Too Short”)
I won’t start this review off pretending I don’t have a bias towards HBO’s “Eastbound and Down.” I’m a big Danny McBride fan (if you haven’t seen his debut “The Foot Fist Way” do so). I love the character of Kenny Powers (the most lovably assholish character in TV comedy). And this show comes the…
Mom Jokes: A Little Something to Lighten Up Tax Day
A politician dropped by the local elementary school to explain how taxes worked. He called Johnny up to the front of the class, and asked if he had any lunch money. Johnny said yes and pulled out four quarters. The politician took one of the quarters from Johnny and said “The government takes this money…
Sunday’s Sermons: How Taxes Can Tell Us Our Values, by Worshipping Different “Government Gods”
Last year around this time, the country felt more or less stuck in the same rut that it is today. Democrats are trying to take on multiple agendas at once (getting gay marriage into more states, making sure Obama’s not a one-term president, struggling to not have unions wiped out, not letting the country crumble…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: Another Year, More Taxes to Not Pay…Where Does the Time Go?
Well it’s that time of year again. The time when the fed-er-al government decides to put its imperialist boots on the necks of confederate states and make us pay taxes. All across the nation, taxes are due this Monday, so make sure you file them, or better yet, don’t. Bubba hasn’t filed taxes in…well, ever….
Larger Editorial: Forget Social Conservatives, the Real Radical Shift is Among Fiscal Conservatives
The most popular punching bag of the last thirty years is the hyper-divisive beast known as “The Social Conservative.” This is the guy or gal who has inserted themselves as the “nay” vote in all of today’s most heated cultural wedge issues, and has fought against everything from gay Civil Rights to allowing women easier…
Petty Issues: Celebrity Edition
Ryan Seacrest will be a part of NBC’s primetime Olympics coverage in an increasingly desperate bid to convince them he’s substantial enough to replace Matt Lauer on The Today Show in a couple years. Seacrest plans to show his newfound maturity by grilling olympic swimmers on who designed the Speedo they’re wearing and asking all…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Is College Still Worth It?
Ever since there’s been an America, there’s been a general consensus that going to college is something you should do, if you can do it. That getting that diploma will be a sure-fire ticket to a better life than you would have without one. It’s a pretty widely accepted belief that staying in school and…
Entertainment Editorial: Alabama Liberal’s Book of the Month is…C-Street!
Today brings our monthly “Book of the Month” Club selection, but also the very first one to be a non-fiction book. In fact, I can’t say I really enjoy non-fiction books, and have often times bemoaned the fact that no one seems to read novels anymore. Still, “C-Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy” by…
TV Reviews: Scandal, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, and the Season Finales of Happy Endings/Bent
Another week, more shows trotting out to slaughter…In order of increasing quality… ABC’s Scandal…What Happened: A bunch of bullshit with Kerry Washington as some uber-slick crisis manager in Washington D.C. putting out fires…but also making plenty as she stabs her clients in the back since this is broadcast TV and they have to make everything…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Mirror Mirror
The trailer’s for this movie looked awful, and Snow White and the Huntsman seems like it will be much better. Okay, so right off the bat I should tell you that this movie is NOT awful…that’s the good news. The bad news is that it is no better than a C and completely forgettable/disposable/you can…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Wrath of the Titans
This movie had a weak opening weekend box office, it’s the sequel to a film that wasn’t good, and this one is worse. Why watch this when you could watch a half dozen other teen-aimed fantasy movies (like the far superior Lorax or Hunger Games) in theaters now? What Works: It’s always a pleasure to…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: John Carter
Beginning our day of “Unsatisfying Fantasy Films” is John Carter. Damn, can you believe this movie only came out a month ago? It feels a year ago seeing as how much negative press has been written about it being a box office flop. It seems all people care about is whether or not a movie…