It’s that time of year again: the time when America pretends to give a shit about who wins the Oscars, really just watches the red carpet, claps if someone they’ve heard of (like Sandra Bullock) wins, and largely just goes back to watching Transformers and pretending it’s a good movie. With that, I’d like to…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Contraband
Anyone can take one look at this Mark Wahlberg thriller (dumped into the Friday the 13th slot in mid-JANUARY no less) and tell it’s going to be generic. They can listen to some random thug threaten his wife and Wahlberg scowl “Don’t you ever talk about my wife. You go near my kids, I’ll kill…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Carnage
Most of you haven’t heard of this film (and probably won’t be too inclined to look it up after this review) but it’s a small, scratch that, VERY small film that stars Jodie Foster, John C. Rielly, Christoph Waltz, and Kate Winslet as dueling sets of parents who get into it when their sons get…
Mom Joke: How’s Norma?
A sweet grandmother telephoned St. Joseph’s Hospital. She timidly asked, “Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me how a patient is doing?” The operator said,”I’ll be glad to help, dear. What’s the name and room number of the patient?” The grandmother in her weak, tremulous voice said, “Norma Findlay, Room 302.” The operator replied, “Let…
Sunday’s Sermons: So Long to Jon Huntsman, The “Other” Mormon
So today brings news that Jon Huntsman will officially end his Presidential campaign in South Carolina on Monday morning. Now this comes as a shock to…uhhh…errr…maybe Jon Huntsman’s sons? No…maybe his wife? Probably not. Well, I would say it comes as a shock to Huntsman himself but I seriously doubt that’s true either. Now there’s…
The Return of Bubba’s Sex Tips: Bubba Covers Alabama’s Championship, Christmas, and (My God) the Opera
Helllllllllllo faithful readers, it’s been a while since I’ve seen you as there hasn’t been a new sex tip for almost three months (possibly longer as I’m lousy at counting and drunk more Saturdays than not) as I went into a football-induced hibernation. [And my sweet sacrifice alone is what allowed my beloved Alabama University,…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Outsourced Worker
Today brings a relatively quick interview with an Alabama worker who found themselves out of a job when their workplace got outsourced to Honduras. It’s not an uncommon story as more and more American manufacturing jobs have been completely moved to exploit cheap labor in Asia and Latin America, and a record number of Americans…
A Special, Unflattering Q and A With “The Obamas” Controversial Writer Jodi Kantor
Immediate Disclaimer: I didn’t get to exclusively interview her (and probably wouldn’t break my back trying to as everything she could tell you is in her book…which in effect is available for free on Google) but I did attend a special Barnes and Noble Q&A/book signing that she did last night in Manhattan. I thought…
Petty Issues: Congratulations Edition
Congratulations to Mitt Romney on his totally expected and predictable victory in New Hampshire as he soars to his totally expected and predictable winning of the nomination…by process of elimination as all other major candidates have either failed to enter the race (Trump, Christie, Huckabee, Daniels) or been found to be serial perverts (Cain) or…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): With Romney, GOP Once Again Surrenders “The Youth Vote”
So yesterday Mitt Romney won New Hampshire in a landslide, surprising exactly no one except for maybe Jon Huntsman’s sons. And with him now winning both Iowa and New Hampshire, it now becomes almost impossible for another candidate to beat him, especially when the race for second place is all over the place (Santorum took…
Working Class Economist: Got Any Get Rich Quick Schemes?
Even though last week was technically the year’s first, this is our first real week here at Working Class Economist and so we’d like to start it off right, which is to say: rich. People make many New Year’s Resolutions and Delusions of Betterment from losing twenty pounds to finally taking that cycling class they’ve…
The Fast Food Critic: A New Year With…No Fa(s)t Food? Let’s Kick Bad Food Together
As much as I love this particular segment of the site, in year two we might be forced to have change it a little bit. Where “Year One AL” (as I have pretentiously decided to call it) found The Fast Food Critic scarfing down various horrible-for-you foods and reviewing, say, side effects of Burger King’s…
Red State Vs. Blue State: Brody Vs. a Ron Paul Supporter, Part One
Today, I resurrect this often neglected debate segment. [It is definitely harder to find people to debate me than it is for me to find movies to review, which is why this is stretched into two parts.] But the site has found someone always up for a good debate: a Ron Paul supporter. I’ve had…