AL wonders why we don’t hear more about pretty privilege, and wonders if it’s really worse to be desired by gross people than to be gross and undesired.
Category: Larger Editorials
How Social Media (and Reality Shows) Re-wired Millennials
I explain how reality shows and especially social media changed millennials, turning us into our own hype men/women and making us crave acceptance or fame by creating a version of high school that never really ends.
Millennials Don’t Suck (OR Why Millennials Aren’t Spoiled)
I explain why millennial-hatred is no different than how baby boomers were hated by the greatest generation, and how we might eventually hate the next generation’s habits. Then, I coin the phrase “The Degeneration Generation” to explain how millennials are actually less wealthy, less educated, underpaid, and not expected to live as long as their…
How Citizens United Changed the Democratic Party Too
AL explains how the Citizens United decision changed not just the Republican Party (more dominant and corporate-beholden than ever) but is responsible for the Democratic Party’s hard swerve towards social issues. At a time when Democrats vowed to get serious about economic issues, they’re mostly discussing Dreamers, transrights, Confederate Statues, gun control, and Me Too–an…
A Kamala Harris & Mark Warner Ticket Would Win in 2020
Why Kamala Harris is the perfect candidate to take on Trump (who doesn’t handle criticism from black women well) in 2020, noting similar winning Democrats age, experience, and ambiguity. Also, her best strategy to win the nomination and why Mark Warner is the best VP to win the general election.
How Liberal Movements Keep Failing
Why do all liberal movements experience such mission creep? What is it about the heart of liberals—always well-meaning in the beginning, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions—that keeps drifting to America’s most puritanical instincts? Why can “Occupy Wall Street,” “Black Lives Matter,” Sandernistas, the #MeToo Mafia, and other solid movements not…
With Lewinsky, #MeToo Movement Drifts Further Into Infantilization
I’m not sure there’s a woman alive I feel less sorry for than Monica Lewinsky. And before you start in that I’m slut-shaming her, keep in mind that I fully respected her decision to sleep with the President…until she didn’t, retroactively slut-shaming herself after listening to the rightwing’s and some women’s insistence for two decades that she…
Tax Cuts Kill Jobs
AL explains how tax cuts kill jobs by 1. cutting government jobs to pay for them 2. giving the government less money to create new jobs (like construction for roads or hiring more teachers), 3. jobs are created by demand for things, which tax cuts don’t create, 4. and it gives already-thriving businesses an unfair…
Israel is the Next America
I break down how Israel’s founding is eerily similar to the United States, and how their high-tech economy (including exporting water) could lead to a major expansionIIr
How Did Russia Hijack the Rightwing?
AL explains how the rightwing got Russia-fever through a mix of white panic (only America and Russia are majority white in the world’s ten most populated countries), Christian supremacy, 1% oil interests, and fears of the hard-to-define “New World Order.”
End the War on Happiness: Legalize Prostitution
It’s time to end The War on Happiness. AL makes the case that the way to really stimulate the economy AND end mass shootings is not to make guns illegal but prostitution legal. Take it from sleazy alleyways to a thriving boutique industry like marijuana.
Amazon Should Pick Atlanta for HQ2
I explain why Atlanta has the airport (hub of Delta Airlines), the facilities (last American city to host a Summer Olympics), cost, weather, space, transit routes, film production (3rd only to NY and LA), racial diversity, home prices, and perfect location to host Amazon’s HQ2
The Paradox of Trump’s Russian-Sponsored “Nationalism”
Alabama Liberal ponders the irony of Trump’s “Nationalism” which usually only benefits Russia and their desire to see America divided and withdrawn from the world’s stage.