Today I debate probably the oddest of all political curiosities: a black female conservative. They do exist, and are actually shockingly numerous in the Southeast, but still, if someone gets to debate a unicorn (and really somebody voting conservative when true conservatives would probably rather that person not be allowed to vote makes about as…
Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: Sucker Punch, the Ambitious Failure
Today on the site I bring you no less than 5 new movie reviews—and the only reason it’s not seven is I didn’t have enough time to write a review for Paul and Source Code—so I’m pretty sure that if you’re not interested in this movie review there’s something down below it you might like….
Movie Review: Battle L.A., the Unambitious Success
If there is a place in flop hell for ambitious failures then unfortunately there is also a place in box office heaven for unambitious success. Battle L.A., a reasonable hit, is proof positive of that even though there isn’t a thing new to this you haven’t seen a hundred times before. Haunted Military Hero Who…
Movie Review: The Lincoln Lawyer, the Lazy Winner
From the opening credits with a smooth Motown song playing as a Lincoln glides around the streets of LA, you can tell The Lincoln Lawyer isn’t going to reach for success, strive for ambition, unsettle you in any way, or really challenge your thinking on anything. However, it is also a pretty good movie. It’s…
Movie Review: Limitless, Slickness Over Substance
Just like The Lincoln Lawyer mainly wants to show you a good time over exploring the moral dilemma at its surface, so too Limitless is consumed with slickness over substance. The plot—a man takes a pill to make himself smarter—is the type of high concept quasi-thriller Hollywood loves to make because it’s easy to sell…
Movie Review: Red Riding Hood, An Ambitious Failure
Which now brings us full circle back to another ambitious failure, that might not really be that ambitious. Red Riding Hood tries to take a fairy tale for children and give it a suspenseful, moody atmosphere fit for adults. It doesn’t work and that’s mostly because the movie seems more content to rip off Twilight…
Segregation Street is a Two Lane Highway
If you’re a Southern white guy who likes black women, you should probably move. It isn’t because there are no black women in the South, far from it, just that they most likely won’t date you. Paradoxically, Mississippi (37 percent), Louisiana (32 percent), Georgia (30 percent), South Carolina (28 percent), and Alabama (26) have the…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Pollster
Today I interview a Democrat political pollster named Jeffrey Ioimo, an all around sharp guy and former President of the Auburn Democrats. I think pollster is the ultimate misunderstood profession, so he offers up a defense of that, but first we talk Tea Party, unions, and Democrat strategy heading into 2012 1. Hi Jeff, it’s…
Larger Editorial: Is Reality TV responsible for the Tea Party?
Let me start off by acknowledging that I don’t mean that title literally. I don’t mean to suggest that the creators of the Real Housewives of [Some City You Don’t Live In] were sitting around thinking of faster ways to ruin civilization and decided to create a quasi-racist, definitely ignorant, oxymoronic (they want to lower…
Red State Vs. Blue State: Brody Vs. Boobs
I’ve debated fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, and a guy at a bar that can accurately be described as Trigger Happy Jones in his love for guns. However, I have not debated a—and I do believe this is the technical term—“hottie.” Sure, today she is a conservative woman with large implants, an aspiring modeling career, and…
Bubba’s Sex Tips: Things to Do in Vegas When You’re NOT Single
Ordinarily, I hate talking about trips and traveling and traveling trip tips make me sick to my stomach in addition to being damn hard to say. I mean, whenever someone puts up a trip on facebook or shows me pictures of somewhere they’ve been I’m thinking “Looking at someone else having a good time is…
Mitt Romney is Funneling Money to Drug Cartels to Claim Mexico for Mormonism! (Or Why Faux News is so Dangerous)
By now articles about the legendary inaccuracies to stories Faux News reports are almost old hat. Nearly every week, people accuse them of making something up. If it can be proven they did, they ignore it long enough to hope it goes away. If it cannot be proven to a certainty what they reported is…
Working Class Economist: Why Tax Cuts for Corporations COST Jobs
If I’d heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “Tax cuts for the rich create jobs.” But if the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy are extended it will plunge America further into debt? “Tax cuts for the rich create jobs.” But in the ten years the Bush tax cuts have been in…