I leave for a week and Amy Winehouse up and dies on us. Why is it always someone talented that dies like her or Heath Ledger? Kim Kardashian will live forever and her biggest talent is breathing while being filmed. The debt ceiling was finally raised after a month of stagnant, tedious bickering. This is…
Author: Alabama Liberal
WCE: Why Republicans Should Immigrate to the “Small Government” Haven of Somalia
“I don’t want to eliminate government. I want to shrink it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it.”–Grover Norquist, current Republican “thinker”/former Confederate soldier. Over and over again, we’ve been told by Republicans that government is inefficient, wasteful, harmful, dangerous, a thief, and pretty much everything but a…
Entertainment Editorial: Do Stars Still Matter?
When I say stars, I mean big name actors. And when I say big name actors, I don’t mean Kim Kardashian. Now this item isn’t meant to ask if actors are still necessary–I still remember all those articles saying actors were now irrelevant in the wake of completely CGI animated movies like Final Fantasy…which promptly…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Captain America
This movie is curious because I remember liking it decently as I watched it, and that’s good. But only two days later I can hardly remember a thing about it, and that’s not so good. It was solid, wholesome, respectable…and just a little bit boring. This movie is so old fashioned it could be one…
Movie Review: The Devil’s Double
This movie should have been better than it was. It’s loosely based (and, to me, very loosely) on the actual life of the man chosen to be Uday Hussein’s body double. It starts around the time of the Iraq/Iran war and ends several years after the first Gulf War. Dominic Cooper plays both the poor,…
Movie Review: Friends with Benefits
I hate this “movie” which is really just an excuse to make money on top of money. First they make money by selling tickets to people but also the film practically pays for itself by some of the most obvious product placement I’ve ever seen in a major film. Justin Timberlake’s “character” in this extended…
Movie Review: Zookeeper
The best thing I can say for Zookeeper is that I didn’t hate it. I don’t know what it says about me that I know Zookeeper sucks but I still found myself thinking it was as good as any of the other movies I’m reviewing today. Although Captain America, The Devil’s Double, and Friends with…
Sunday’s Sermons: Changing Marriage in New York
So all over the internet I’ve been seeing ads saying “Conventional Marriage Under Attack!” and “Stop the threats to REAL marriage!” Now I didn’t realize gay marriage was such a threat to conventional marriage or exactly how it threatens it. Have homosexuals acquired a gay atomic bomb? Will it be dropped from Neil Patrick Harris’s…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: My Official Invitation for Michelle Bachmann to Be My Date at the Confederate Ball
So recently we have some headline-hogging Marines trying to derail the ceiling debt fight’s quest to monopolize all news, our government’s ongoing squabble over money the third one this year alone. [They are officially the married couple that should be divorced that people avoid at parties, Republicans the drunken, self-destructive husband who keeps ranting about…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Overweight Woman
Today we’re joined by Vanessa, a woman who’s here to talk about being overweight in a society obsessed with skinny women, the beauty industry, what’s in the food to make us fat, and if the food/weight loss industries are really being responsible by encouraging us to eat trans fat and then have to work extra…
Larger Editorials: Why Don’t Republicans Want a Consumer Protection Bureau?
This week has seen so much hoopla over the fight to raise the debt ceiling (which shouldn’t even be a fight unless we want a financial Armageddon) that there’s been another economic issue that has barely been touched on. In the nexus between corporations and government there’s another fight going on: the one to create…
Petty Issues
Herman Cain supports communities that want to ban mosques, but what about my community that wants to ban Herman Cain from The White House? Happy Birthday to someone special who had a birthday this week, actually two special people that did. Michelle Bachmann and her husband own a gay rehabilitation center and yet, they weren’t…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): The Internet Generation’s Stubborn Refusal to Leave Their House
R.I.P. Borders. This week the second largest book retailer in America declared bankruptcy and liquidation. Everyone expected it to scale back its store locations for months now–the smart money even said it would declare bankruptcy–but I don’t know if anyone expected it to close every single store. This is just part of a pattern of…