I don’t agree with neo-cons about much (as is by now obvious to anyone who has ever visited the site, read an article title, or even glanced at the web address), but I do agree with them that the ruling Politburo in China aren’t very nice people. Of course, the right wing doesn’t really talk…
Reviewing The Season Finales of “Touch,” “House,” “Awake,” “Revenge,” “Parks and Recreation,” and more
So pretty much all season finales are done (except for excellent cable shows like Mad Men or HBO’s Girls/Veep), and since most of them were done weeks ago, I can review without fear of spoilers… Revenge…What Happened: Emily “finally” came face to face with a white-haired man who apparently killed her father. She beat him…
Movie Review: The Dictator
This was my third most anticipated movie of the summer (behind Prometheus and, of course, The Dark Knight Rises). I’m sorry to say it’s merely pretty good. I’m really torn on this one, because I absolutely love all the risks that Sacha Baron Cohen took, but I don’t think all of them pay off. What…
Movie Review: Men in Black III
So this movie is a little bit better than you might think (which matches up with my expectations of it as being in the middle ground for summer movies, not too bad, not extremely good). And in that way, it’s a minor miracle that a film that really says nothing and was made solely to…
Movie Review: The Pirates
So this animated movie pretty much came and went during the last week of April but I might as well talk about it anyway. What Works: Well, like all Aardman claymation movies (the same guys who make all the Wallace and Gromit films and the excellent Chicken Run about a decade back), the movie is…
Movie Review: Why “Battleship” Deserves To Be the Flop of the Summer
This movie is awful. I’d like to take a small victory lap in that as I correctly put it on my “List of five movies that will suck,” summer list. What Works: Virtually nothing. I can’t single out the direction because it was a mess. The script featured everything that’s wrong with Hollywood movies. And…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Avengers
So I semi-reviewed this movie when I talked about the experience of seeing it in China, but this is more the standard review…By now, literally everybody that goes to the movies has seen this but I might as well discuss it anyway. What Works: This movie is thoroughly mediocre, and exactly what you’d expect…so in…
Shanghai Sites and Scenery (Pictures Inside)
As a follow-up to the “editorial” I posted a few weeks back about Shanghai’s singular architecture, it’s finally time I make good on a promise to post more pictures from the trip. It’s not been easy to load the pictures onto the site for some reason, but I’m truly sorry it took this long. [The…
Working Class Economist: May’s Rich Asshole of the Month Is…
With my recent trip to China and ongoing struggle to post pictures from Shanghai and Hong Kong (more coming tomorrow…I hope) some regular features on the site have suffered as of late. And perhaps none more so than the regular “Rich Asshole of the Month” feature which is coming in at the 11th hour on…
Consider Buying an Alabama Liberal T-Shirt
http://alabamaliberal.spreadshirt.com/ That’s a link to our t-shirt designs which you can customize in any size or color you want. The profits on the shirts aren’t more than 4 to 6 dollars on each one (depending on which one you buy) but it would go a long way towards making the site even somewhat profitable instead…
Alabama Liberal’s May Book of the Month Club Pick Is…
Christopher Buckley’s “They Eat Puppies Don’t They?”! In this superb satire, Buckley (the brilliant satirist behind “Thank You For Smoking”) takes on the symbiotic yet adversarial relationship between China and the United States, and includes scores of great pot shots about the military industrial complex for good measure. The book begins when defense industry lobbyist…
Larger Editorial: Shanghai’s Unique Architecture (Pictures Galore Inside)
The first thing you notice about Shanghai is that it has an architectural style unlike any other city in the world. It’s as if the world’s biggest Blade Runner fan decided to plan an entire city around steampunk designs. Here are only a few examples… …
Blue State Vs. Communist State: Why The Chinese Make Republicans Look Flexible
Note: I realize that title has the sweeping generalization of something I’d probably think was racist if it were said about, ummm…Nigerians or Mexicans or even people from the Philippines. However, the Chinese government is newly rich and a serious threat to world stability (more on how their government is literally the shadiest in the…