I was traveling between Phoenix and Ajo the other day south of Gila Bend when a tire blew out. Checking my spare, I found that it too was flat. My only option was to flag down a passing motorist and get a ride to the next town. The first vehicle to stop was an old…
Sunday’s Sermons: Why Jesus Would Support Unions
If you don’t know by now, Wisconsin’s unions (except for the police unions which supported Walker and are exempt from his changes) are in a fight for their life against Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker. It won’t surprise anyone reading a site called Alabama Liberal that I’m firmly on the side of the unions, but it…
Bubba’s Sex Tips for a Seductive Evening: Tip 3: Tiger Moms, a Better Class of MILF
First I’d like to take an irrelevant moment to point out my excitement over Microsoft Word recognizing the word MILF and not saying it’s a typo. However, if you try to get away with not capitalizing each initial, it won’t accept that as “correct” and maybe it shouldn’t since saying Mom I’d Like to Fuck…
Interviews with the Invisible: The Liberal Preacher
Today I talk to a seminary student and sure to be amazing Reverend named Nick Melton that is a little left of center in his political views. If I oversimplified it by calling him liberal I apologize to him, but I didn’t think “A little left of center in his political views preacher” quite had…
Larger Editorial: Why Jesus Would Support Unions
Partial Caveat: This could easily go into Sunday’s Sermons (and was supposed to originally) but if I wait until Sunday to post it, who knows if unions will even still be around. Plus, this section is where I post something I value every week, and for me the issue of unions is about as close to…
Petty Issues
There is a circle of hell that killers go to, below it is where child rapists go, and below that is where the Bravo executive responsible for the Real Housewives franchise can expect a spot. In Washington Tom Delay traded political favors for money. In prison Tom Delay trades money to keep from giving sexual…
Now What? (Life Post-Grad): There’s a New Lower Class and it’s Called Young People or I think I’m Turning East Indian
In the endless garbage bin of catchy 1980’s music that doesn’t hold up well is a song by The Vapors called “Turning Japanese,” with the totally rad lyric young people used to sing, “I think I’m turning Japanese.” A generation of young people today might sing “I Think I’m Turning East Indian,” in that they…
Working Class Economist: The Underwater Degree
This feature could just as easily be on Now What? but today I want to cover Underwater Degrees. Most of you may have heard the term “Underwater Mortgage” used to describe houses that are in more mortgage debt than they will ever be worth. I’ve coined the phrase Underwater Degrees to refer to degrees that…
The Fast Food Critic: I have a near death experience with the 5 Dollar Foot Long
Today’s review was supposed to be about how foods you think of as healthy can be deceptive, because Subway has centered their entire brand around the idea that lard asses can lose weight by eating food measured in feet. I deliberately picked what might be the unhealthiest sub on their menu to review, The Chicken…
Red State Vs. Blue State: AL Vs. The Evil Russian Challenger, Eat Your Heart out Rocky IV
Today I debate a Russian Spy, I mean, a nice young man (Artem Joukov) who immigrated to America when he was three but somehow fell in with a bad crowd of strict Christian conservatives Brody: Hi, thanks for coming on the site. It’s great to have an old friend like this. Artem: It is good…
Down & Out in Bumblefuck: The Rural News
This week on Alabama Liberal is all about religion, so I thought I’d recommend some great Netflix films I’d stumbled across that talk about just that. There isn’t going to be a whole lot I can add to the topic—one of America’s favorites—but these films just might: Waiting for Armageddon: A great, brisk film detailing…
Big Momma’s House 3, because We Just Didn’t Get Enough Fat Black Lady Jokes in the First Two
This movie sucks. What Works: lol What Doesn’t: From the opening credits to the music video ending this movie is a racist, sexist train wreck. Everything from every white male character being a villain or sleaze bag to the tired stereotype that the scariest thing on the planet is a fat, angry black woman (Big…
TV Review of MTV’s Skins, as Forced and Awkward as Teen Sex
In the above review of The Mechanic, I speculate that maybe if teenagers were having more sex, they would be less violent. [Christian conservatives can come on here and jump down my throat if they want to but young males getting it on the regular typically don’t storm their schools looking for random people to…