God bless HBO. While most networks surrender the summer time period to bottom rung reality shows or a few scripted series so awful the networks know they can’t compete in the regular season, HBO has been unveiling a different documentary every Monday night. I believe last week was the final one, but luckily most of…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: The Help
This is probably the hardest movie of the year to review. I feel alternately cool and warm towards it, as often the movie goes from a great scene to a terrible scene within five minutes. It’s just so hard to really say a movie that is half comedic about Civil Rights is really doing its…
Sunday’s Sermons: Inside the Cult of Ron Paul
Last week The Daily Show ran a piece about how the news media is unfairly ignoring Ron Paul. It was funny, truthful, and I even went to their facebook page to talk about it. Unfortunately, hundreds of people had already beaten me to it. There were perhaps half-a-thousand comments all expressing gratitude for the Paul…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: Un-legalize Breast Reductions
We need to respect God’s miracles. And no I don’t mean babies (what kind of miracle can’t even eat a chili dog?), I mean breasts. My issue for 2012 is the illegalization of breast reduction surgery. Let’s take back control of women’s bodies! The candidates for president have set about trying to tear each other…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Alabama Political Analyst
Today I sit down with former interview guest (“The Pollster”), the great Jeffrey Ioimo, our resident political analyst in Alabama. He’s here to help make sense of Alabama’s illegal immigration bill, the debt ceiling fiasco, the GOP presidential race, and what Obama can do to boost his sagging poll numbers, if you can make any…
Larger Editorial: How Obama Can Win a Second Term…If He Even Wants To
The president looks rough these days. Everyone from comedians like Seth Myers to the unintentionally hilarious Chris Matthews have remarked on just how bone-tired the man who had a quasi-cocky swagger only a few months ago has become. You can hear it in his voice, you can see it on his face, and you can…
Petty Issues: Republican Primary Edition
Rick Perry declared his candidacy for President…of the confederacy. Shouldn’t the president of the United States believe in the word “United?” “Instead of running for President, Tim Pawlenty should burn 2 million dollars and let 100 people punch him in the face. That would save him some time.”–Myself a few months back. Look’s like he…
Now What?: The Me Party, How Apathy and Selfishness Empower Fringe Politics
At this point, making fun of The Tea Party is almost like shooting fish in a barrel. EXCEPT that they are still somewhat popular in parts of the country and their popularity isn’t really fading fast enough. Besides, The Tea Party is a blanket term that doesn’t really stick to any one person or group…
Working Class Economist: Introducing Brody Incorporated
Last week, Mitt Romney said corporations are people. So this week I decide to formally declare myself a corporation. I will now be known as Brody Incorporated. I will pay no taxes. Particularly if I have a very rich year as the more I make, the less I pay. I will actually be GIVEN corporate…
Fast Food Critic: Zaxby’s Wings & Things
Reviewing Zaxby’s might have limited appeal for the majority of Alabama Liberal’s readers (who aren’t from, don’t live in, and have never stepped foot in Alabama). That’s because the chain doesn’t exist outside the Southeast. They have a handful of locations in Indiana, but other than that, the popular chain is confined East of Texas…
Red State Vs. Blue State: New York Conservative Vs. Alabama Liberal
The tables are flipped today. Instead of going after the usual targets of massively delusional rednecks, housewives, gun nuts, and other red state staples, I get to challenge a New York Republican. In all likelihood, he’s someone that should probably be liberal to properly into stereotypes, just as I should probably be conservative to fit…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: Down & Out on Wall Street
There’s not much you can say about the beating the stock market has been taking recently. Ever since the U.S. had its credit downgraded by Standard & Poors (that sterling agency that was so on top of it during the 2008 recession and has never been wrong before) there has been immense panic in the…
TV Shows Are Like People: The Good Die Young and the Most Profitable Live Forever
R.I.P. Men of a Certain Age. After a meager two seasons of charming us as TNT’s only non-cop show, the network cancelled it, supposedly to make room for Salt Lake City Homicide or Grand Rapids Beat or Gonzo & Nash or some such other stupid ass cop show in a TV landscape swimming in them….