1. Legalizing Marijuana: No true list of deficit reduction ideas would be complete without it. I didn’t even waste time by putting a preamble paragraph before getting right down to the business of getting high. It’s impossible to know for sure how much taxable revenue the US is missing out on by moving such a…
Author: Alabama Liberal
The Fast Food Critic: Dairy Queen Blizzards
I’m not going to be exactly unbiased about this one. If you were to come up and ask me about Dairy Queen Blizzards I would probably tell you they’re incredible. And then you would probably say “That’s great, but I was asking you about the weather, not Dairy Queen Blizzards.” At which point I might…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: Phone Hacking & Corruption in England
Rupert Murdoch’s infamous Newscorp empire with its history of bullying, bribing, lying, and other notorieties can now add “phone hacking” into its list of crimes. [And quite possibly murder now that the man who first blew the whistle on Newscorp’s phone hacking practices has turned up dead.] Its been found that Newscorp has been hacking…
TV Review: Breaking Bad
This review only covers the first episode of season 4 but Breaking Bad is my personal favorite TV show currently on the air right now (not so stiff competition as the heyday of The Sopranos, The Shield, The Wire, Deadwood, Damages, Rome, and Lost are over) so I feel I had to weigh in sooner…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Harry Potter End Game
Harry Potter is the only movie where you’ll find screaming kids and grown men saying “fuck” at the top of their lungs because they can’t get a better seat. The theater I saw it in started leaking heavily during the climax–making it feel like I was watching it in the middle of a rainfall–and no…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Horrible Bosses
I want to say right off the bat that I like this movie. I want that to be crystal clear because the review for it might seem like I don’t like it. So just to get that out of the way, the movie is pretty good, very enjoyable, and a solid B+…now let’s get into…
Mom Jokes: Catholic Heart Attack
Catholic Heart Attack A man suffered a serious heart attack while shopping in a store. The store clerks called 911 when they saw him collapse to the floor. The paramedics rushed the man to the nearest hospital where he had emergency open heart bypass surgery. He awakened from the surgery to find himself in the…
Larger Editorial: Does the GOP Have Buyer’s Remorse About the Tea Party?
For the majority of the two years since the Tea Party has existed it has mostly been a boom for the mainstream Republican Party. They pretended to hate it when the Tea Party was getting started and kicking out some of the last moderates in the GOP. But every person who ran as a Tea…
Petty Issues
Why is Rupert Murdoch even interested in hacking people’s phones? He mostly makes up the news. He gets his “leads” by having someone write “Obama sucks” on a bathroom stall door 15 times and calling it a “Poll of how Americans feel about the President.” So a part of California wants to secede into a…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Is Facebook Making Young People Dumber?
When my mom told me last week that she was considering getting a facebook, I knew we had reached an apex point for Facebook users. An older lady who doesn’t think privacy is a four letter word and has refused to pronounce facebook correctly for the better part of a decade (my favorites: “Facepage” “Facecook”…
The Fast Food Critic: Sonic’s Hot Dogs
If you live in an area that has a Sonic–the drive in themed fast food restaurant where you pull up to an individual speaker, park, and order–you’ve probably seen a commercial for the chain’s new hot dogs that promise to be a “taste of America.” I guess that means that the one hot dog that…
TV Review: True Blood, the Worst Show on TV That Critics Won’t Turn Against
That title doesn’t mean that I think True Blood is actually the worst show on TV. [I have seen the 9th circle of hell that is Basketball Wives or anything else on VH1, Bravo, or MTV]. It’s not even the worst show on TV that critics like (I’m lost to the appeal of Showtime’s “Mischievous…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: A Better Life
Even in the summertime a small independent film with no well known actors and a complete lack of special effects can sneak into theaters, cross your radar, and floor you. A Better Life is one of those movies. It’s not a perfect film but it’s one of the best two or three movies I’ve seen…