At this point, making fun of The Tea Party is almost like shooting fish in a barrel. EXCEPT that they are still somewhat popular in parts of the country and their popularity isn’t really fading fast enough. Besides, The Tea Party is a blanket term that doesn’t really stick to any one person or group…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Working Class Economist: Introducing Brody Incorporated
Last week, Mitt Romney said corporations are people. So this week I decide to formally declare myself a corporation. I will now be known as Brody Incorporated. I will pay no taxes. Particularly if I have a very rich year as the more I make, the less I pay. I will actually be GIVEN corporate…
Fast Food Critic: Zaxby’s Wings & Things
Reviewing Zaxby’s might have limited appeal for the majority of Alabama Liberal’s readers (who aren’t from, don’t live in, and have never stepped foot in Alabama). That’s because the chain doesn’t exist outside the Southeast. They have a handful of locations in Indiana, but other than that, the popular chain is confined East of Texas…
Red State Vs. Blue State: New York Conservative Vs. Alabama Liberal
The tables are flipped today. Instead of going after the usual targets of massively delusional rednecks, housewives, gun nuts, and other red state staples, I get to challenge a New York Republican. In all likelihood, he’s someone that should probably be liberal to properly into stereotypes, just as I should probably be conservative to fit…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: Down & Out on Wall Street
There’s not much you can say about the beating the stock market has been taking recently. Ever since the U.S. had its credit downgraded by Standard & Poors (that sterling agency that was so on top of it during the 2008 recession and has never been wrong before) there has been immense panic in the…
TV Shows Are Like People: The Good Die Young and the Most Profitable Live Forever
R.I.P. Men of a Certain Age. After a meager two seasons of charming us as TNT’s only non-cop show, the network cancelled it, supposedly to make room for Salt Lake City Homicide or Grand Rapids Beat or Gonzo & Nash or some such other stupid ass cop show in a TV landscape swimming in them….
Mom Jokes: An Entire Week’s Worth
MONDAY The mother of a 17-year-old girl was concerned that her daughter was having sex. Worried the girl might become pregnant and adversely impact the family’s status, she consulted the family doctor. The doctor told her that teenagers today were very willful and any attempt to stop the girl would probably result in rebellion. He…
TV Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm
What can you say about Curb that hasn’t already been said? It’s now in its 8th season and I think almost everyone in the country has had some type of exposure to it in one form or another. I’ve found the show to be deeply polarizing among people I know. Some love Larry David’s improvised,…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: 30 Minutes or Less
America didn’t show this movie much love over the weekend. It opened to a disappointing fifth place at the box office and it looks like I’m once again one of the few people in the country to see a Danny McBride movie (the immensely talented co-star of such duds as Land of the Lost, Your…
Movie Review: The Change-Up
I won’t make this review a long one. If I wrote ten paragraphs I would be putting more thought into it than America has (the movie came and went last weekend at the box office) so I’ll just get to the bullet points of this body swap flick. What Works: MVP Jason Bateman who almost…
Movie Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love
This movie’s a tough one. On the one hand, I do find it better than approximately 98 percent of romantic comedies. On the other hand, that isn’t exactly a rave endorsement. I felt like this movie really had me in the beginning and gradually let me go, getting less genuine and more stupid as it…
First Black President Vs. First Mormon Nominee, Why Obama Should Want to Face Romney
Today we have a real interesting match up. Most weeks I’m forced to choose which theme I want to go with, religion or race, BUT this week we get to speculate on which one the American people would be more comfortable with: a black president or a president that isn’t protestant. [Only one president has…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: No Money, No Problems, Redneck Dating Takes Hold in a Busted Economy
The last few weeks haven’t been kind to Bubba’s Sex Tips. All this talk about debt ceiling fiascoes, credit downgrades, and nose diving stocks can make it seriously hard to find something in the news to get sexy about. [Sofia Vergara bouncing naked on a trampoline while reading stock reports probably couldn’t make them sexy.]…