Just like The Lincoln Lawyer mainly wants to show you a good time over exploring the moral dilemma at its surface, so too Limitless is consumed with slickness over substance. The plot—a man takes a pill to make himself smarter—is the type of high concept quasi-thriller Hollywood loves to make because it’s easy to sell…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Movie Review: Red Riding Hood, An Ambitious Failure
Which now brings us full circle back to another ambitious failure, that might not really be that ambitious. Red Riding Hood tries to take a fairy tale for children and give it a suspenseful, moody atmosphere fit for adults. It doesn’t work and that’s mostly because the movie seems more content to rip off Twilight…
Segregation Street is a Two Lane Highway
If you’re a Southern white guy who likes black women, you should probably move. It isn’t because there are no black women in the South, far from it, just that they most likely won’t date you. Paradoxically, Mississippi (37 percent), Louisiana (32 percent), Georgia (30 percent), South Carolina (28 percent), and Alabama (26) have the…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Pollster
Today I interview a Democrat political pollster named Jeffrey Ioimo, an all around sharp guy and former President of the Auburn Democrats. I think pollster is the ultimate misunderstood profession, so he offers up a defense of that, but first we talk Tea Party, unions, and Democrat strategy heading into 2012 1. Hi Jeff, it’s…
Larger Editorial: Is Reality TV responsible for the Tea Party?
Let me start off by acknowledging that I don’t mean that title literally. I don’t mean to suggest that the creators of the Real Housewives of [Some City You Don’t Live In] were sitting around thinking of faster ways to ruin civilization and decided to create a quasi-racist, definitely ignorant, oxymoronic (they want to lower…
Red State Vs. Blue State: Brody Vs. Boobs
I’ve debated fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, and a guy at a bar that can accurately be described as Trigger Happy Jones in his love for guns. However, I have not debated a—and I do believe this is the technical term—“hottie.” Sure, today she is a conservative woman with large implants, an aspiring modeling career, and…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: Things to Do in Vegas When You’re NOT Single
Ordinarily, I hate talking about trips and traveling and traveling trip tips make me sick to my stomach in addition to being damn hard to say. I mean, whenever someone puts up a trip on facebook or shows me pictures of somewhere they’ve been I’m thinking “Looking at someone else having a good time is…
Mitt Romney is Funneling Money to Drug Cartels to Claim Mexico for Mormonism! (Or Why Faux News is so Dangerous)
By now articles about the legendary inaccuracies to stories Faux News reports are almost old hat. Nearly every week, people accuse them of making something up. If it can be proven they did, they ignore it long enough to hope it goes away. If it cannot be proven to a certainty what they reported is…
Working Class Economist: Why Tax Cuts for Corporations COST Jobs
If I’d heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “Tax cuts for the rich create jobs.” But if the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy are extended it will plunge America further into debt? “Tax cuts for the rich create jobs.” But in the ten years the Bush tax cuts have been in…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Getting Screwed By the Casino of Life, Las Vegas Not That Different Than Graduating in 2011
So as I mentioned yesterday, and a couple times on Twitter the big reason the site was pretty lackluster (with only a handful of new items) last week is because I was in Vegas. I don’t want to milk mentioning it to death. Although I will gladly pretend I went to get material for a…
Fast Food Critic: The Promised Land Reveals Itself at the KFC Buffet
Two words: KFC. Buffet. That’s what select KFC’s across the country have (although I have only seen about 5 in Alabama and nowhere else), so of course the only real question is: Why am I just now reviewing it. The buffet I went to had the usual suspects: friend chicken greasy enough to mop a…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: The Merits of Gambling
Last week the site was on a bit of a hiatus as I went to Las Vegas. So I’d like to take this item to announce a couple of features this week will reflect that and cover Vegas, but really there is no better place than right here to talk about if states can fix…
Red State Vs. Blue State: AL Vs. Anti-Union Andy (All Rounds)
As I’m still kind of getting back to speed after spending a week in Vegas last week, I am re-airing the three rounds I spent debating Andy. I figure putting them together like this might inspire more people to read it as I had a huge turn out for the first round, but diminishing attendance…