At the risk of turning this once diverse feature into “Why Mitt Romney Sucks This Week,” it’s yet another week in the presidential campaign (as it will be for the next nine months) and disappointingly brings another fuck-up from the Mitt Romney campaign. [With a candidate like this it really speaks to how unpopular Gingrich…
Category: Wednesday
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Why I’m Endorsing Stephen Colbert for the GOP Nomination
In the ongoing shit-show for the GOP nomination for president there remains one candidate I feel has earned my endorsement. This man is fearless, speaking truth to power four nights a week and most notably at the White House Correspondents dinner a few years back where no one left the room unscathed. He is also…
High Fructose Corn Syrup, the Crystal Meth of Food
I want you to imagine the worst drug you can think of. Unlike marijuana (or sugar), it’s made from chemicals not naturally found in nature. It pops up in unexpected places. Ten years ago, you’d never heard of it, and now it’s virtually everywhere. Even your kids are at risk of getting hooked, and several…
Working Class Economist: This Month’s Rich Bastard is…Mitt Romney
Today brings the start of what I hope to be one of the new monthly features inserted into Alabama Liberal. On Monday I will reveal the site’s first “Book of the Month Club” selection and today I’m revealing, you guessed it, “This Month’s Rich Bastard.” So who better to be January’s rich bastard than the…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Are Gay Parents, Better Parents?
Of course Now What? mostly deals with issues related to young people but I like to think of it as also having to do with shifts in society and “Now What?” could also refer to what’s next for this big, great, all-over-the-map country of ours. And no where are we less certain (or more divided)…
The Fall of Queen Deen: Public (Health) Enemy Number 1 Paula Deen Has Diabetes. In Other News, Sun is Hot
In today’s Fast Food Critic segment we’re doing something a little different…we’re taking somebody down who desperately needs it. For those that haven’t heard, Mega-celebrity chef and spokesperson for lard Paula Deen announced this week that she has diabetes AND has had it for three years. Surprising perhaps only those that have never taken a…
Mitt Romney, Serial Killer Capitalist?
For those that haven’t heard, Stephen Colbert has released a hilarious attack ad on GOP front runner (and competitor in South Carolina) Mitt Romney. In it, he quotes Romney himself as saying “Corporations are people” and then remembers his time at Bain Capital where Romney killed companies. Thus, Romney is a serial killer…Anyway, watch the…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): With Romney, GOP Once Again Surrenders “The Youth Vote”
So yesterday Mitt Romney won New Hampshire in a landslide, surprising exactly no one except for maybe Jon Huntsman’s sons. And with him now winning both Iowa and New Hampshire, it now becomes almost impossible for another candidate to beat him, especially when the race for second place is all over the place (Santorum took…
Working Class Economist: Got Any Get Rich Quick Schemes?
Even though last week was technically the year’s first, this is our first real week here at Working Class Economist and so we’d like to start it off right, which is to say: rich. People make many New Year’s Resolutions and Delusions of Betterment from losing twenty pounds to finally taking that cycling class they’ve…
The Fast Food Critic: A New Year With…No Fa(s)t Food? Let’s Kick Bad Food Together
As much as I love this particular segment of the site, in year two we might be forced to have change it a little bit. Where “Year One AL” (as I have pretentiously decided to call it) found The Fast Food Critic scarfing down various horrible-for-you foods and reviewing, say, side effects of Burger King’s…
Occupy Y’all Street, Why Alabama SHOULD Be Protesting Too
On Working Class Economist, we like to cover an economic issue by what it means for the people CNBC never talks about: the majority of Americans, and by that I mean people making less than 35,000 a year. And no where is more working class (or desperately in need of clarification on economic issues) than…
Working Class Economist: Why Alabama’s Fiscal Conservatism Attracts Illegal Immigrants
I think Alabama’s new, ultra-radical illegal immigration legislation is stupid, a political stunt, and a P.R. nightmare for a state already struggling against a ridiculously intolerant image. That being said, something about the legislation struck me as funny and that’s because something about the attitudes of people in Alabama that don’t like illegal immigrants strikes…
The Fast Food Critic Reviews Boston Market
In honor of Thanksgiving tomorrow, I decided to go on the hunt for the best possible Thanksgiving meal someone could get from a fast casual or fast food restaurant chain (quite a qualifier that is kind-of like saying the best possible college education you can get online). The list was pretty short as virtually no…