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…
Category: Tuesday
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,…