I’m going to grade a few of the season finales we saw in May. These aren’t all the shows I watch (in fact, this is the first episode of The Mentalist I’ve seen all the way through), but it’s the most notable season finales. Looking at this crew it’s become apparent the big four networks…
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Sunday’s Sermons: Why Social Conservatives Need to Wake Up
The majority of Republican voters would be social conservatives (no abortion, no gay marriage, prayer in school, any religious issue), voting more about culture than the right wing’s economic policies, which many actually don’t like but barely pay attention to. BUT the people actually in charge of the party are fiscal conservatives (love of money…
Happy Off Day
This weekend is my birthday so there will be less new features. But tomorrow I’ll still manage to put up a new sermon “Why Social Conservatives Need to Wake Up” and new movie reviews on Monday including Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and Kung Fu Panda 2. The only question now is how would Bubba…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Narcissistic Website Runner
Today’s interview guest is me. Now since I own, operate, and regularly shoot my mouth off on a political website I might not be a great candidate for “invisible” status. However, I’ve had the privilege to interview almost a dozen great people since the site got started, and today I open it up for them…
Larger Editorial: Republicans, Why Self-Hating Governments Can’t Be Effective
“Republicans have a great gambit. They run on the promise that government is ineffective and then they get in there and prove it”–Bill Maher Republicans hate government. They hate the regulations it imposes. They hate the taxes it draws to keep the country running. If you’re Ron Paul, you even hate that government forces you…
Petty Issues
It’s weird that so many look forward to The Rapture they miss the very real man made armageddon of Climate Crisis, currently shredding through the red states in the form of tornadoes. This weekend will officially make me 25, the same age as Lady Gaga (who could pass for an easy 40, when I saw…
Working Class Economist: Banks are Too Big To Fail, but America Isn’t
So last night I watched the HBO TV film Too Big Too Fail, and even though I was already well versed in what led to the economic disaster of 2008, some things still surprised me. 1. Exactly what went into the behind the scenes negotiations the days of and how much power the banks actually…
Fast Food Critic: Soul Daddy, When Reality TV Tries to Open Restaurants
Today brings something new to The Fast Food Critic. First, we get to do a crossover with a TV Review I ran a few weeks back for America’s Next Great Restaurant, NBC’s reality competition to see who could make a restaurant that Chipotle founder, Judge, and uber bitch Steve Ells (who looks and acts like…
Entertainment Editorial: Forget the GOP nomination, Who Will Be the New Manager on The Office?
So last Thursday the search began for an official replacement for Steve Carell’s long reigning, brain dead manager Michael Scott. The two episodes before that were standalone episodes featuring different managers to good effect (Will Ferrell’s favorites playing boss Deangelo) and bad effect (after 7 long seasons of coveting the job you can’t have Dwight…
TV Review: The Borgias
Last night saw the first season finale of the new Showtime series The Borgias (after only 9 episodes which really feels like a problem that a first season show ran out of material that fast but anyway…). Problem is, the show doesn’t feel that new. Indeed, Showtime is the network that brought us The Tudors,…
Movie Review: Thor
By now everyone in the country that is going to see this movie already has, so you’ll be glad to know I would recommend it. I mean, after all, you don’t want to spend your money on a movie and then find out I wouldn’t recommend it two weeks later ;) What Works: The Asgard…
Sunday’s Sermons: Armageddon, The Weird Sensation of Looking Forward to The End
So yesterday was May 21st and–if we believe some true believers–the world should have ended. It’s fair to note that most Christians didn’t actually believe this was the day, and that only one mega church (led by 89 year old doomsday-er Harold Camping) really pushed this date as the end. BUT it wasn’t just followers…
Bubba’s Sex Tips 8: Picking Up Chicks at Armageddon
So apparently there were some true believers that thought the world should end today. Imagine the strange sensation of being disappointed to wake up today “We’re alive!…oh wait…well damn…”. I know I can just imagine there were a lot of heartbroken chicks out there. They’ve been told over and over again that their one true…