Last week, we talked a little bit about why Chic-Fil-A were, to put it bluntly, assholes. Why Dan Cathy runs the company more like an evangelical prosperity-preacher than a real businessman. Why their corporate culture is rotten with retrograde social prejudice (not just homophobia, but religious discrimination and telling female managers their place is in…
Review of Yahoo’s “Electric City” (and Quick One of “Burning Love” )
Yahoo’s new web series “Electric City” is set in some sort of vaguely defined post-apocalyptic city where electricity is a precious and coveted commodity. People are willing to steal for it, a quasi-fascist government will arrest people for overuse of it, and a secret society of “founders” (nefarious old ladies who quilt and plot murders)…
TV Reviews: Summer Round-Up with Dallas, Longmire, Falling Skies, Alphas, and Small Town Security
As we enter into the new Fall television season in the next few weeks (NBC will be rolling their lineup out sooner than the others to capitalize on the Olympic’s coverage) it’s time to say goodbye (and judge) all the shows I’ve been using as filler for the last couple months. Dallas…Against all possible odds,…
Monday Morning Movie Review: Total Recall
Another completely useless, uninspired remake that pales in comparison to the original. In other words: it’s Monday. What Works: It’s always a pleasure to see Bryan Cranston (giving the best performance on television as Walter White in AMC’s Breaking Bad) getting work but he could still do better than being the generic villain in this….
Mom Jokes: The Confessional
A guy goes inside the confessional and says: “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.” “What did you do, my son?” “Yesterday I was walking along the beach at night, and I decided to explore a cave near the shore. When I turned on my flashlight, I saw two men having sex.” “Oh, so you…
Working Class Economist: JULY’S Asshole of the Month Is…Chic-Fil-A
I know today is technically the first day of August, but I got my calendar slightly confused a week ago and thought this would be the last Wednesday of the month for July…Whoops, but in a way it really worked out because by waiting a week a fantastic asshole of the month contender emerged: Chic-Fil-A…
Entertainment Editorial: July’s Book of the Month Club Pick is…
Multiple Choice! This month was tough for me. Ordinarily, I’ve just finished a book I’m very-excited about (like last month’s pick Gone Girl or March’s The Orphan Master’s Son) or I’ve read a book a while ago that fits some type of theme for the month (February’s Ready Player One being a tribute to geek…
Movie Review: “Ted,” The Inexplicable 200 Million Dollar Mega-Hit
By the time this review runs, “Ted” may very well have grossed 200 million dollars, and it will almost certainly hit that milestone no later than Wednesday and possibly finish its run with 250 million dollars domestic. In other words: WHAT THE FUCK? How did a lazy, haphazardly constructed movie that is essentially the same story…
Entertainment Editorial: My First Red Box Experience and a mini-review of “Friends with Kids”
As popular as they’ve become in recent years, I’ve actually never used a RedBox video rental machine, and probably never will again. Sure, there’s nothing technically “wrong” with them and they provide a nice service and everything, but I thought we moved beyond basic DVD rentals with OnDemand rentals and Netflix downloads. [What’s up with…
Mom Jokes: Alabama President
Alabamians will truly understand the humor here. The year is 2024 and the United States has just elected the first woman as President of the United States. A few days after the election, the president-elect calls her father in Birmingham and asks, “So, Dad, I assume you will becoming to my inauguration? “I don’t think so. It’s…
Sunday’s Sermons: Why I’m Not Afraid to Go to the Movies, and Neither Should You
So, roughly a week ago there was this grade-A asshole in Colorado who shot up a movie theater and killed 12 people all in some misguided delusion that he was the Joker instead of, you know, a loser. Now naturally this stirred up a media frenzy, and that story is about all we heard about…
Petty Issues: Kristen Stewart, Colorado Shooter, and My OWN Advertisers
So Kristen Stewart apparently “cheated” on Robert Pattison and people everywhere are saying she must die a slow, painful death. Come on, she’s 22 years old…is it really that likely she’ll marry the first serious boyfriend she’s ever had? Weren’t they bound to break up sooner or later and probably because of some random third…
Working Class Economist: An Author Event (Plus Q & A) With “The Price of Inequality” Economist Joseph Stiglitz
Welp, once again, I enjoyed a Barnes and Noble author event where the author of a new book drops by to discuss it, and eventually answer questions from the crowd. And tonight’s was none other than economist/writer Joseph Stiglitz. Now that name may not mean a whole lot to most people, but Stiglitz is something…