Today I debate one of the wealthiest guys I know who’s always been vehemently anti-union. He’s also an all around fiscal conservative blowhard who routinely interrupts me whenever we have a conversation about economics (more theories to him than an actual impact on people’s lives), and usually to quote some Libertarian think tank or post…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: The Rural News
Today is about crime and poverty. I’ll keep it short because nobody ever reads about it anyway. Recently US News published a list of the 11 most crime infested cities in the country and although you might expect to find perennial blue state hellholes like Baltimore and Detroit on the list, and even though they…
Gnomeo and Juliet, a Whole Different Kind of Survivor Story
[It might be in its 3rd week of release, but since this sucker just topped the box office, it’s gained a new relevance] If Sanctum is about survival under almost impossible odds then surely Gnomeo and Juliet is for myself. I survived one of the most bizarre children’s films in history while in a theater…
Sanctum, When Australia Tries to do it Big American Style, and Makes all the Same Mistakes
[I waited four weeks to put up this review because there are spoilers, and I figure after a month no one will care…if they ever did] The new movie Sanctum is about a team of Australian cave divers who get trapped in a cave during a monsoon and get picked off one by one by various…
Entertainment Editorial: If I See Anymore 3D Movies, I’m Going to Hang Myself in 4D
Alright so that headline doesn’t exactly make sense, but what does make sense to studio executives is that 3D movie tickets cost more, so they release as many 3D movies as possible. About a decade ago, the closest you got to a 3D movie is the god-awful Spy Kids 3D which asked you to wear…
TV Review: The Cape, NBC Flushes the Toilet Again
I’m not going to spend this whole review talking about NBC’s troubles (they’ve been well documented from everything to Conan O’Brien to 30 Rock making fun of their own network nearly every week), or even call them the worst broadcast network out there (that would actually be CBS, who are the top rated network through…
Mom Jokes: Traveling Through Arizona
I was traveling between Phoenix and Ajo the other day south of Gila Bend when a tire blew out. Checking my spare, I found that it too was flat. My only option was to flag down a passing motorist and get a ride to the next town. The first vehicle to stop was an old…
Sunday’s Sermons: Why Jesus Would Support Unions
If you don’t know by now, Wisconsin’s unions (except for the police unions which supported Walker and are exempt from his changes) are in a fight for their life against Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker. It won’t surprise anyone reading a site called Alabama Liberal that I’m firmly on the side of the unions, but it…
Bubba’s Sex Tips for a Seductive Evening: Tip 3: Tiger Moms, a Better Class of MILF
First I’d like to take an irrelevant moment to point out my excitement over Microsoft Word recognizing the word MILF and not saying it’s a typo. However, if you try to get away with not capitalizing each initial, it won’t accept that as “correct” and maybe it shouldn’t since saying Mom I’d Like to Fuck…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Liberal Preacher
Today I talk to a seminary student and sure to be amazing Reverend named Nick Melton that is a little left of center in his political views. If I oversimplified it by calling him liberal I apologize to him, but I didn’t think “A little left of center in his political views preacher” quite had…
Larger Editorial: Why Jesus Would Support Unions
Partial Caveat: This could easily go into Sunday’s Sermons (and was supposed to originally) but if I wait until Sunday to post it, who knows if unions will even still be around. Plus, this section is where I post something I value every week, and for me the issue of unions is about as close to…
Petty Issues
There is a circle of hell that killers go to, below it is where child rapists go, and below that is where the Bravo executive responsible for the Real Housewives franchise can expect a spot. In Washington Tom Delay traded political favors for money. In prison Tom Delay trades money to keep from giving sexual…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): There’s a New Lower Class and it’s Called Young People or I think I’m Turning East Indian
In the endless garbage bin of catchy 1980’s music that doesn’t hold up well is a song by The Vapors called “Turning Japanese,” with the totally rad lyric young people used to sing, “I think I’m turning Japanese.” A generation of young people today might sing “I Think I’m Turning East Indian,” in that they…