This is a little unusual for the Fast Food Critic for three reasons: 1. This feature has been benched for about a month so welcome back everyone! 2. We are covering a fast food item that’s actually somewhat healthy, 3. In keeping with the Obama week theme, I sort of grasp at straws to tie…
Category: Wednesday
Working Class Economist: Why Liberals Need to Get Better at Math
It happens at least a handful of times every week: I talk Math and nobody listens. By Math, I mean what politics really boils down to: fundraising, economic clashes, working class versus rich, unions versus corporations, simplified to the extreme: money. The political feud between Democrats and Republicans isn’t some lofty war of morals like…
Now What? (Life Post Grad): Which Social Networking Site is Right for You?
Since today I am putting more of a marketing push behind Working Class Economist’s feature, and it has been scientifically proven my facebook friends can only handle one serious item a day—if that—before going to something lighter or logging off completely, I am going to evaluate the different social networking sites for you and anything…
Working Class Economist: Why Tax Cuts for Corporations COST Jobs
If I’d heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “Tax cuts for the rich create jobs.” But if the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy are extended it will plunge America further into debt? “Tax cuts for the rich create jobs.” But in the ten years the Bush tax cuts have been in…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Getting Screwed By the Casino of Life, Las Vegas Not That Different Than Graduating in 2011
So as I mentioned yesterday, and a couple times on Twitter the big reason the site was pretty lackluster (with only a handful of new items) last week is because I was in Vegas. I don’t want to milk mentioning it to death. Although I will gladly pretend I went to get material for a…
Fast Food Critic: The Promised Land Reveals Itself at the KFC Buffet
Two words: KFC. Buffet. That’s what select KFC’s across the country have (although I have only seen about 5 in Alabama and nowhere else), so of course the only real question is: Why am I just now reviewing it. The buffet I went to had the usual suspects: friend chicken greasy enough to mop a…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): Republicans Don’t Care if You Go to College
Of all the items of the week the only three that are usually non-political are Monday’s reviews, Saturday’s sex tips (although I’m sure Bubba will eventually contrast the difference between Republican women and Democrat women), and this feature…but today is the exception…that I’m pretty sure will become the rule. Last week as I searched the…
Working Class Economist: The New House Republican Budget, What’s In It For You?
Short answer: Not a damn thing. Long answer: No really, not a damn thing. The House Republicans (as Now What? pointed out above) have passed a new budget for the next year that is pretty much…what’s the right word…awful in its treatment of everyone who isn’t super rich. They want to cut Pell grants for…
The Fast Food Critic: Taco Bell, What’s in the Beef?
A few decades ago Dave Thomas of Wendy’s fame starred in commercials not just to unnerve us with his resemblance to a sex offender, but to ask his fast food competition “Where’s the beef?” Of course Dave later died of a heart attack from asking that question one too many times while gorging Wendy’s triple…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): The Ocean of Promotion, How to Make a Drop in the Bucket in a Sea of Advertising
From the time you get up in the morning to the time your head hits the pillow that night, you have probably been exposed to (roughly) 1,000 different advertising messages. An exact count is impossible to determine as some Unibomber-ish nut living in a log cabin in Montana might not be exposed to any advertising…
Working Class Economist: The Hidden Cost of Denying Planned Parenthood Funding
I’ll keep this short as the one thing I know Republicans will come on here and comment about is abortion. The wealthy conservatives that actually control the Republican Party won’t really care enough to comment on millionaire tax breaks or will sidestep the drama of having to actually talk to a working class person. However,…
The Fast Food Critic: Meet the New Dominos, Same as the Old Dominoes
Note from last week: I now believe it was NOT subway that made me sick. So apologies Subway, but that sandwich was still disgusting and unhealthy. Anyway, this week is media issues week and there is no better food to cover than Dominos pizza which last year launched the rarest marketing campaign of all: commercials…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): There’s a New Lower Class and it’s Called Young People or I think I’m Turning East Indian
In the endless garbage bin of catchy 1980’s music that doesn’t hold up well is a song by The Vapors called “Turning Japanese,” with the totally rad lyric young people used to sing, “I think I’m turning Japanese.” A generation of young people today might sing “I Think I’m Turning East Indian,” in that they…