Is it lazy to just use a bunch of Bill Maher quotes to fill up this article? Sure, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth reading. The man is better than any other political commentator on the planet, and appropriate respect should be paid now before the rightwing eventually runs him off the air… “This…
Book Reviews of “Defending Jacob,” “Gods Without Men,” “Savages,” “Start Shooting,” and “Raylan”
While in the search of selections for Alabama Liberal’s “Book of the Month” club list, I come across books that don’t quite make the cut (either by an inch or a mile) but are worth discussing here anyway. [Note: April’s Book Selection is “C-Street” and May’s hasn’t been decided yet, none of these are official…
TV Review: “30 Rock”‘s Live Episode East Coast Version Vs. West Coast Version
So hopefully people watched 30 Rock’s live episode last Thursday night, but they may not have known that there was an East Coast version and a West Coast version, both of them done live and slightly different from each other. After watching the East Coast version live and the West Coast version On Demand, I…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Five Year Engagement
Note: I’m reviewing this based off an early screening I saw a month ago, so I’m not sure that the version in theaters is exactly what I watched (they said the movie would be edited from what we saw). I feel like it’s 95 % the same movie, and I don’t foresee any big changes…
Mom Jokes: The Last Penny
The last penny A father walks into a restaurant with his young son. He gives the young boy 3 pennies to play with to keep him occupied. Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the pennies and starts slapping him on the back.. The boy…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: Bubba Goes “Redneck Green”
So last weekend was Earth Day, and today I’d like to talk about it nearly a week after the fact. [What, you expect a redneck to do something before its too late? Hell, I don’t my file my taxes until June, and don’t celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day until…phew…how’s never sound?] Since everyone’s out…
Larger Editorial: Why (Unfortunately) Dick Clark Will Be More Imitated Than Mike Wallace
We’ve lost two icons of media in just as many weeks, but (sadly) the wrong one will leave the much bigger legacy on the pop cultural landscape. When you contrast two figures as stylistically and substantially different as Dick Clark (the New Year’s Eve countdown guy, the guy who paved the way for American Idol,…
Petty Issues: A Rogue’s Gallery of Assholes
Ordinarily in this feature, we like to talk a little about current events and list the Asshole of the Week at the very bottom, but this week, there are just way too many assholes to save it for the very end… Fifth Biggest Asshole This Week: Sarah Palin. No surprise that perennial offender Palin—-who at…
After Being Attacked By a Penguin, Is It Time For Newt Gingrich to Give Up?
So in the fuss to “scandalize” Obama’s secret service detail for doing something in Colombia that everyone who visits Colombia does (pay for sex) and also to ridiculously criticize him for using some tax dollars to travel for his re-election campaign (something every incumbent president has done), the media has overlooked something in the past…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: The Unsexy Environmental Issue of Garbage
So Earth Day was this past Sunday and it really got me thinking about all of the environmental issues most people ignore on a daily basis (climate crisis, ground soil pollution, and over population to name but a few). But what about the issue that even some environmentalists aren’t that crazy about sermonizing on? You…
Entertainment Editorial: The Ten Summer Movies I’m Looking Most Forward to (and Five I’m Not)
It’s that time of year again, the time when Hollywood rolls out its “best” (i.e. most expensive) movies to assault us all in theaters until we wobble out of the theater reeling from the headache a Transformers movie can provide. Still, the best summer movies are wholly original creations that operate on a much higher…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: 21 Jump Street
After being lukewarm to downright unenthused about all of today’s movies, here comes an honest-to-God crowd pleaser. I may not have been totally in love with this film, but I can recommend it to almost anyone and feel like they’ll have a pretty good time. What Works: The set-up is that two cops who knew…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Bully
Man, this is going to be a hard one to explain… Okay, so this movie is as famous for its ratings battle as it is for the actual content of the movie. For anyone who doesn’t know (and is perhaps not alive on this planet), the film is about bullying kids and received an R-rating…