As one of the first fans of HBO’s cult hit The Wire–I watched the first season on HBO before the show became a smash on DVD–I could not have been looking more forward to Wire creator David Simon’s followup Treme. I was hoping he would do for the South what he did for Baltimore: a…
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Mom Jokes, Resending the Best Joke My Mom Emailed Me Last Week
Quick Hits, Daddy Issues A boy walks into the room his father is reading the newspaper in. He says “Dad, I want to be in organized crime when I get older.” The dad says “Health insurance or oil?” A boy asked his father “Where do babies come from?” Confused and unsure how to answer it,…
Entertainment Editorial: The Summer Movies I’m Looking Forward to (and the Not-so-Much List)
[This is already sort of an out of the gate bust, as I’ve seen two of these movies since I originally made this list. Oh well…] 5. Cowboys and Indians: The only big budget Summer blockbuster that looks like it has a shred of originality. This matchup of Western and Sci-fi might be terrible but…
Sunday’s Sermons: Why Republicans Don’t Really Want to End Abortion
The abortion card. There is no one issue more controversial in the deck of cards that makes up American politics in 2011. You can’t reason with it, level with it, soothe it, or bury it. Knowing the irrationality of the issue, the side in favor of it just hopes it isn’t (for the 400th time)…
Bubba’s Sex Tip 9: When to Send a Picture of Your Penis to That Special Someone
So this week’s latest pseudo-versy involved Anthony Weiner–the razor sharp congressmen–turning into a complete moron and sending a picture of his Johnson, excuse me, his Weinberger to a follower on Twitter. The media is covering this 24/7 even though no actual sex seems to have taken place. I guess real sex scandals like Arnold’s secret…
Interviews with the Invisible: Reader Responses
Continuing last week where I answered questions from past interviewees, I’m answering questions from any reader who sent one in…so… The Gurette asks “What sources do you use when writing an article?” Brody: That’s a good one because it varies. I try not to use solely liberal sources, but that becomes harder when the Nightly…
Larger Editorial: Why Republicans are the Pyramid Scheme Party
In an item I ran on Sunday I said social conservatives (the majority of the Republican Party by far) need to wake up to being used by fiscal conservatives (the small minority of the party that actually runs it). And I’d like to continue on that thread now. After all, when social conservatives have been…
Working Class Economist: Outsourcing is a Greater Threat to America than Terrorism
I’ll try to keep this post short as my head is still spinning from yesterday’s self-debate. First, congratulations to Obama on killing Osama Bin Laden. Second, now maybe he could work on America’s real enemy number 1: outsourcing. Instead of bombarding you with statistics you might not believe, I’ll just put what’s happened to America…
Red State Vs. Blue State: Brody vs. Brody (?) on the Issue of Gun Control
Alright so being this week’s interview guest (answering questions from readers) and having a debate with myself might seem like I’ve taken a dive off the deep end of the fuzzy line of blogger narcissism–right there I just mixed metaphors, another brazen example of cockiness–and, the big fear, having a debate with yourself will probably…
Kung Fu Panda 2, For Those Who Like Good Movies
I really, really liked this movie. You can try to shame me or make me feel embarrassed that a guy who just turned 25 is still into kid films, but it’s a guilty pleasure, only in my case, there’s not much guilt. What Works: Everything. Seriously, the animation, the fight scenes, the villain, the mysticism…
Insidious, For Those Who Like Shitting Their Pants
I have to admit and make fun of me if you want to, but for a PG-13 horror movie, this thing is pretty scary. It’s not bloody or grotesque (at least not for the most part) but from the opening black and white credits you can tell this is a movie that aims to seriously…
Pirates of the Caribbean 4, For Those Who Hate Their Money
I’m sorry, but this franchise needs to die. Once was good, twice was not so good, three times was enough, and four times just feels like Johnny Depp is being a greedy bastard. [The official subtitle to this movie is “On Stranger Tides” but it should be “Depp needs a new mansion.”] I didn’t have…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Everything Must Go, For Those Who Like Ferrell
After years of movies that either underplayed his talents (Step Brothers) or over played them, asking him to trot out the same old blowhard shtick (Semi-Pro), Will Ferrell struck comedy gold last year in The Other Guys, playing a mild mannered guy slowly coming unraveled. The performance was a revelation, and Ferrell has followed that…