Today we’re joined by Vanessa, a woman who’s here to talk about being overweight in a society obsessed with skinny women, the beauty industry, what’s in the food to make us fat, and if the food/weight loss industries are really being responsible by encouraging us to eat trans fat and then have to work extra…
Larger Editorials: Why Don’t Republicans Want a Consumer Protection Bureau?
This week has seen so much hoopla over the fight to raise the debt ceiling (which shouldn’t even be a fight unless we want a financial Armageddon) that there’s been another economic issue that has barely been touched on. In the nexus between corporations and government there’s another fight going on: the one to create…
Petty Issues
Herman Cain supports communities that want to ban mosques, but what about my community that wants to ban Herman Cain from The White House? Happy Birthday to someone special who had a birthday this week, actually two special people that did. Michelle Bachmann and her husband own a gay rehabilitation center and yet, they weren’t…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): The Internet Generation’s Stubborn Refusal to Leave Their House
R.I.P. Borders. This week the second largest book retailer in America declared bankruptcy and liquidation. Everyone expected it to scale back its store locations for months now–the smart money even said it would declare bankruptcy–but I don’t know if anyone expected it to close every single store. This is just part of a pattern of…
Working Class Economist: 5 Revenues That Should Be Considered to Lower the Deficit
1. Legalizing Marijuana: No true list of deficit reduction ideas would be complete without it. I didn’t even waste time by putting a preamble paragraph before getting right down to the business of getting high. It’s impossible to know for sure how much taxable revenue the US is missing out on by moving such a…
The Fast Food Critic: Dairy Queen Blizzards
I’m not going to be exactly unbiased about this one. If you were to come up and ask me about Dairy Queen Blizzards I would probably tell you they’re incredible. And then you would probably say “That’s great, but I was asking you about the weather, not Dairy Queen Blizzards.” At which point I might…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: Phone Hacking & Corruption in England
Rupert Murdoch’s infamous Newscorp empire with its history of bullying, bribing, lying, and other notorieties can now add “phone hacking” into its list of crimes. [And quite possibly murder now that the man who first blew the whistle on Newscorp’s phone hacking practices has turned up dead.] Its been found that Newscorp has been hacking…
TV Review: Breaking Bad
This review only covers the first episode of season 4 but Breaking Bad is my personal favorite TV show currently on the air right now (not so stiff competition as the heyday of The Sopranos, The Shield, The Wire, Deadwood, Damages, Rome, and Lost are over) so I feel I had to weigh in sooner…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Harry Potter End Game
Harry Potter is the only movie where you’ll find screaming kids and grown men saying “fuck” at the top of their lungs because they can’t get a better seat. The theater I saw it in started leaking heavily during the climax–making it feel like I was watching it in the middle of a rainfall–and no…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Horrible Bosses
I want to say right off the bat that I like this movie. I want that to be crystal clear because the review for it might seem like I don’t like it. So just to get that out of the way, the movie is pretty good, very enjoyable, and a solid B+…now let’s get into…
Mom Jokes: Catholic Heart Attack
Catholic Heart Attack A man suffered a serious heart attack while shopping in a store. The store clerks called 911 when they saw him collapse to the floor. The paramedics rushed the man to the nearest hospital where he had emergency open heart bypass surgery. He awakened from the surgery to find himself in the…
Larger Editorial: Does the GOP Have Buyer’s Remorse About the Tea Party?
For the majority of the two years since the Tea Party has existed it has mostly been a boom for the mainstream Republican Party. They pretended to hate it when the Tea Party was getting started and kicking out some of the last moderates in the GOP. But every person who ran as a Tea…
Petty Issues
Why is Rupert Murdoch even interested in hacking people’s phones? He mostly makes up the news. He gets his “leads” by having someone write “Obama sucks” on a bathroom stall door 15 times and calling it a “Poll of how Americans feel about the President.” So a part of California wants to secede into a…