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…
Category: Tuesday
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…
Red State vs. Blue State: AL vs. Anti-Union, Final Round
Frazier vs. Ali, Tyson vs. Holyfield, Brody vs. an ultra conservative who refuses to give his real name, these are the great battles of our time. Well, two of them are at least, and the third one (with two pasty white guys battling politics instead of two athletes literally pounding each other in the ring)…
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…
Red State vs. Blue State: AL vs. Anti-Union Andy, Round 1
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…
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…
Red State Vs. Blue State: AL Vs. The Evil Russian Challenger, Eat Your Heart out Rocky IV
Today I debate a Russian Spy, I mean, a nice young man (Artem Joukov) who immigrated to America when he was three but somehow fell in with a bad crowd of strict Christian conservatives Brody: Hi, thanks for coming on the site. It’s great to have an old friend like this. Artem: It is good…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: The Rural News
This week on Alabama Liberal is all about religion, so I thought I’d recommend some great Netflix films I’d stumbled across that talk about just that. There isn’t going to be a whole lot I can add to the topic—one of America’s favorites—but these films just might: Waiting for Armageddon: A great, brisk film detailing…
Red State Vs. Blue State: The Two Beer Debate
After approximately thirty seconds of soul searching (and not a moment longer) on why last week’s debate might have went south—Alabama pun, get it—I decided it must have been because I knew the person I was debating, so I set out to debate a complete stranger this week. At first, I was unsure of where…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: The Rural News
It’s no big news to anyone that U.S. soldiers are disproportionately from rural areas, and more are from the Southeast than any other region of the country. What isn’t widely known is that 2010 had the highest suicide rate of returning veterans in U.S. history. This Friday I’ll hope to ask an Afghanistan veteran why…
Red State Vs. Blue State: Brody Vs. Betty
In this debate I will be talking to a super religious housewife whose husband is in the military. Brody: Hi, thank you so much for coming out. I mean it. Betty: You’re welcome. Brody: Why do you hate gays? Betty: Wait…what? Brody: Okay, we’ll skip that one for now. Actually, I would like to ask…
Down and Out in Bumblefuck: The Rural News Covers Natural Gas Drilling
Today I want to talk about natural gas drilling. Most people think of domestic, natural gas drilling as a positive step towards energy independence and ditching America’s foreign oil addiction. Most people would be wrong. I could write a book about how natural gas drilling is bad for people—from poisoning the ground with hexa-chromium 3,…