Worst Present: A pack of socks…No matter how much someone pretends like it’s something they needed, they’re lying. Sure, you might “need” socks, but you probably also need a tooth brush, shaving cream, bar soap, or any number of things you could buy at a drug store for a pocketful of loose change. Worst Food:…
Category: Thursday
How Obama Can Turn a Shitty Economy to His Advantage
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times (just depending on how much I watch Chris Matthews’s show): “The economy is Obama’s achilles heal.” “Unless Obama gets this economy under control, he’s toast.” “Republicans will hammer Obama on jobs and think that will be their ticket to a win in 2012.” “No…
Petty Issues
Nothing happened this week…nothing. Oh okay, that’s not true, but it feels like it is. This week felt a bit like groundhog day as there was a shooting at Virginia Tech, Sons of Anarchy had a disappointing season finale where nobody important died, and Rick Perry did something stupid. Obama gave a speech asking the…
Larger Editorials: Alabama’s Shifting Attitudes Towards Gay Marriage
Occasionally, I get asked why I don’t talk about issues that relate to homosexuals more often. The argument usually goes “Surely, there is enough material to write about gay marriage in one of the most homophobic states in the country.” And of course there is, except for two things: 1. I haven’t met that many…
Petty Issues
It’s so sad to see Barney Frank retire this week…well, at least we have Alan Grayson in the House to help–wait, okay now it’s really sad see to see Frank go, but don’t worry, at least we have Anthony Weiner to fight for us–shit… Herman Cain (who is making Bill Clinton look asexual at this…
(Not So) Petty Issues: What I’m Thankful for in 2011
I’m thankful that we’re finally getting out of Iraq. I’m thankful for TV’s Justified, Fringe, Parks and Recreation, Community, the now-cancelled Rubicon, Damages, and especially Breaking Bad which is in a league of its own, also a dozen lesser shows that dare to stand out in the vast disappointment that is 2011 television. I’m thankful…
Petty Issues
Now that Herman Cain has been all but ruined by four different sexual harassment allegations, do you think the GOP wishes they’d picked a different token black guy to make them look less racist for hating Obama? Twilight Breaking Dawn: Part-One hits theaters this weekend and that title is either a threat or a promise…
Larger Editorial: Mitt Romney’s Not an Idiot, He Just Plays One On TV
By now we’ve all gotten to know Mitt Romney so well, that it surprised me this week when I discovered that I really know nothing about him. The single largest criticism of Romney is that he’s a flip flopper, a phoney, an artificial mannequin who will say or do anything to get elected. In other words:…
Petty Issues
It’s not hard to see why Herman Cain has been so successful with conservatives in the Republican primary. He has an extreme lack of empathy for anyone worse off than him, from illegal immigrants (“Lets make an electrified border fence”) to Palestinians (“Israel should give them nothing”) to the 99.9 percent of black Americans that…
Larger Editorial: In the Audience For The Colbert Report
Tonight, I talk about what it’s like to be in the audience for The Colbert Report just like I did for The Anderson Cooper Show and The Daily Show just to complete this unofficial name dropping trilogy. Surprising probably no one, The Colbert Report audience experience is virtually identical to The Daily Show (I recommend…
Petty Issues
People often ask if I go check out the Occupy Wall Street protests, and I’ve been a few times but I’m more a fair weather protester. [Like I’ll go if the sun’s out and it’s hotdog Thursdays]. But the people that were out there on Saturday (during a virtual blizzard in New York) are the…
Larger Editorial: The Infuriating Media Coverage of Occupy Wall Street
By now, it’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel for people to criticize the mainstream media. I mean, they please virtually no one. Liberals don’t like the MSM (which sounds like something you don’t want in your Chinese food) because they stubbornly refuse to cover stuff like the Wisconsin union protests. Conservatives such as…
Petty Issues: The Walking Dead and the GOP debate (same thing I guess)
The latest news says that Moammar Gaddafi has been killed in Libya (the fourth time he’s died)…or at least that’s until his return in “Day of The Walking Dead Dictators 2.” Speaking of, The Walking Dead returned to AMC this Sunday and has still yet to figure out the narrative algorithm for making one of…