Welcome to “Now What?” a weekly feature for figuring out what to do after you graduate college. It is the best time of times to be young. It is the worst of times to be young. This is the worst economy for recent college graduates in almost a century. All the promises of wealth you’ve…
The Fast Food Critic: Reviewing the Latest Foods Designed to Kill You
Today I’m reviewing the latest Frankenstein burger, the Jalapeno and Cheddar Stuffed Burger King Steakhouse Burger which sounds more like a sentence than a sandwich. As a general health rule, if your burger needs a period at the end of it (like Chili’s Bacon Ranch Cheddar Fried Onion Chili Burger), you might want to go…
Working Class Economist: Take Your Credit Card, Set It on Fire, and Piss on the Ashes
Welcome to Working Class Economist, a feature that will take a look at the economy through the people most affected by it but so rarely mentioned by policy wonks discussing interest rates or credit default swaps: people making less than 60,000 a year. Today’s feature is all in the title: the abusive relationship you have…
Red State Vs. Blue State: Brody Vs. Betty
In this debate I will be talking to a super religious housewife whose husband is in the military. Brody: Hi, thank you so much for coming out. I mean it. Betty: You’re welcome. Brody: Why do you hate gays? Betty: Wait…what? Brody: Okay, we’ll skip that one for now. Actually, I would like to ask…
Down and Out in Bumblefuck: The Rural News Covers Natural Gas Drilling
Today I want to talk about natural gas drilling. Most people think of domestic, natural gas drilling as a positive step towards energy independence and ditching America’s foreign oil addiction. Most people would be wrong. I could write a book about how natural gas drilling is bad for people—from poisoning the ground with hexa-chromium 3,…
What the Fuck Happened to Vince Vaughn?
[This kicks off “throwback” week on Alabama Liberal. This week I will be re-posting the most popular items from the site’s first 7 months. I just go solely by whichever items had the most comments and am “re-sharing” them in a week that hopes to tap into some nostalgia while also finding new eyes for…
Country Strong: An Attempt to Play to the Rural Seats is as Boring and Sanitized as Contemporary Country Music
Most Hollywood movies are made in cities by people who live in cities for people that will watch them in cities, but every once and a while an attempt comes along to capitalize on an audience usually ignored: the 75 percent of the country classified as a fly over state. Movies like The Passion of…
Finally in Bumblefuck: 127 Hours comes to Alabama and it only took 127 Days
Finally in Bumblefuck: 127 Hours comes to Alabama and it only took 127 Days In the last two months of the year, Hollywood releases a cluster of quality films in an attempt to keep them fresh in voter’s minds for Oscar Season. These movies roll out in New York and Los Angeles, then expand to…
TV Review of Lights Out: Does Hollywood Love Boxing More than the Rest of America?
TV Review of Lights Out: Does Hollywood Love Boxing More than the Rest of America? In the fourth episode of FX’s terrific new show Lights Out (about a retired heavy weight champion trying to survive economically despite deep debt and IRS scrutiny) the lead character, Patrick “Lights” Leary, and his father are at a bar…
Mom Jokes: The Lie Detector
John was a salesman’s delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmicks. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change.. One day John came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector. It was about…
Alabama Liberal
The site is for everyone of all states and political leanings but most days you can expect to find the perspective of liberals living in red states. Each day will contain the following sections… Mindless Mondays is all about entertainment. Monday Morning Movie Reviewer: like a Monday Morning quarterback but with a moderately fat guy nobody…
Hello world!
Welcome to the Alabama Liberal Blog. The site is currently under construction and will be live Feb 7th 2011.