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…
Red State Vs. Blue State: Brody Vs. a Ron Paul Supporter, Part One
Today, I resurrect this often neglected debate segment. [It is definitely harder to find people to debate me than it is for me to find movies to review, which is why this is stretched into two parts.] But the site has found someone always up for a good debate: a Ron Paul supporter. I’ve had…
Alabama Football Wins Three Consecutive National Championships…But It Won’t Help the State
So last night the University of Alabama (or “The Crimson Tide”) beat the shit out of LSU in an embarrassing national championship game where the final score was 21 to zero. That’s zero with a z. [Of course, for his part, LSU coach and professional sayer of stupid things said that LSU should receive the…
Entertainment Editorial: I Go to The Metropolitan Opera’s Hansel and Gretel
That may be one of the most awkward titles the site’s ever come up with but there’s no great way to say “hey, I just got back from The Opera” without really saying “Hey, I want you to think I’m pretentious and take my lunch money.” The Metropolitan Opera is an amazing experience, but since…
Movie Review: War Horse
After seeing this movie occupying a low spot on my best of the year list, many already know I like it. Still, let’s review it for shits and giggles. What Works: The last third of this movie really, really delivers. Some of the sequences are so beautiful, I thought this movie was a worthy successor…
Movie Review: The Darkest Hour
This alien invasion movie is lucky I didn’t see it before I made my “Worst of the Year” list because it undoubtedly would have been on it. The Darkest Hour is like any other generic “Aliens are invading!” movie you’ve ever seen except that it’s set in Moscow (and I would be amazed if it…
Movie Review: Shame
I ranked this movie about a Manhattan sex addict as one of the best twenty I saw last year, and that might have been too generous, but I still think it’s worth watching (as long as you’re not with your parents). What Works: Carey Mulligan–too often Michelle Williams’s sleep walking sister–gives the most alive performance…
Movie Review: New Year’s Eve
This movie is dog shit. I hate to start off the new year with such a bad movie, but here it is. [I’m using today to clear out some of the movies that I technically saw last year but haven’t gotten around to reviewing yet.] What Works: Nothing. This movie is one of the absolute…
Sunday’s Sermons: New Year’s Revolution
Even though no holiday is a bad one–at least out of the major ones that get people out of work for a day–my favorite one remains a combination of the last six hours of December 31st and the entirety of January 1st. There’s just something about the promise of New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day that…
Every Movie I’ve Seen This Year, From Worst to Best
To complete the end of the site’s first year, I thought I’d count down from all the movies I’ve seen this year (all 122 of them). From worst of the year all the way down to the best. There are still a dozen of movies I haven’t seen that I think COULD have wound up…
2011 Was a Great Year For the World (Whether The World Realizes It or Not)
I can’t think of a year in recent memory that offered so much and got recognized for so little. This year, people’s moods were generally pretty down thanks to a sluggish worldwide economy and dismal U.S. jobs numbers. [Of course, it doesn’t help that one of the two U.S. political parties tried to milk every…