Nostalgia. One word that could describe half the movies we see in theaters. Whether it’s obvious nostalgia like a period piece set in a time we might barely remember or a film set currently that tries to make us remember when we were younger (anything from Toy Story 3 to Superbad would qualify). But is…
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Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: I Am Number Four…I Am Dumping It Here
Do I know that I Am Number Four has been out for a month? Yes. Do I know that nobody really cared much about it five minutes after they saw it—if they ever did—and that if there was ever a time to review it, the first weekend would have been the time? Yes. However, I…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Unknown Disappears Before My Eyes
Unknown is another review I just want to dump somewhere mostly because it’s even worse than I Am Number Four in the unoriginal department and the film largely evaporated before my eyes as I was watching it. There is one decent twist towards the end that is pretty interesting…but then the movie promptly goes back…
GOP Stirs Up White Middleclass Fears of Islam and Mexicans so Middleclass Pays no Attention to the Thing Actually Being Raped: Its Wallet
If you are a Hispanic voter or a Muslim living in the United States, it has been a bad couple of weeks. Hell, it’s really been a bad decade but it’s these latest developments I’m talking about: 1. Several states (including Alabama) have recently enacted laws that would ban Sharia Law from being practiced or…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: Online Dating Goes Ruralstream
William Shakespeare. Oscar Wilde. Sarah Palin. Bubba from Bubba’s Sex Tips. All of these people have coined words. The first two coined countless phrases in their official capacity as all around witty fucks. Palin has coined several phrases by using the wrong word in a twitter feed and instead of admitting a typo, saying she…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Ivory Coast Businessman
Today the site proudly goes international with an interview of a businessman from the Ivory Coast. Wilfried Kohou is a young self made businessman from the Ivory Coast who has dropped by tell us about the upheaval his country is going through (they currently have two Presidents as the old one who lost re-elections refuses…
While Democracy Spreads Throughout the World, It’s Taken Away in the US
It is the best of times to be a democracy. It is the worst of times to be a democracy. All over the world, fledgling democracies are springing up in the place of decades old dictatorships. Tunisia, Egypt, and (any day now) Libya will all be in that exciting new phase of a country where…
Petty Issues Week 5
Charlie Sheen is fired for being a crazy egomaniac with delusions of grandeur…Faux News officially offers him a job. The Adjustment Bureau rides early lead in my “Best Film of 2011” estimation, narrowly beating Big Momma’s House 3 and any movie starring Nicolas Cage by 20 miles. Republikinz wunt 2 defund Peil Gruntz dey mus…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Republicans Don’t Care if You Go to College
Of all the items of the week the only three that are usually non-political are Monday’s reviews, Saturday’s sex tips (although I’m sure Bubba will eventually contrast the difference between Republican women and Democrat women), and this feature…but today is the exception…that I’m pretty sure will become the rule. Last week as I searched the…
Working Class Economist: The New House Republican Budget, What’s In It For You?
Short answer: Not a damn thing. Long answer: No really, not a damn thing. The House Republicans (as Now What? pointed out above) have passed a new budget for the next year that is pretty much…what’s the right word…awful in its treatment of everyone who isn’t super rich. They want to cut Pell grants for…
The Fast Food Critic: Taco Bell, What’s in the Beef?
A few decades ago Dave Thomas of Wendy’s fame starred in commercials not just to unnerve us with his resemblance to a sex offender, but to ask his fast food competition “Where’s the beef?” Of course Dave later died of a heart attack from asking that question one too many times while gorging Wendy’s triple…
Red State vs. Blue State: AL vs. Anti-Union Andy, Round 2
I’ll post the last comment from last week as a refresher of where we left off, the rest is the middle section of our debate. We join this debate already in progress… Brody: Tax cuts take away from the state budget. Lowering taxes on the wealthy and corporations inside a state insures states won’t have…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: The Rural News
Today I’d like to talk about Charlie Sheen. I’m just fucking with you, I’d like to talk about poor people in third world countries…ha, and you thought today was going to be fun! No, I’d like to speak of the real Bumblefucks out there: third world nations and the news media that doesn’t care about…