May 13, 2013 By Bill Maher
With the advent of Netflix, Blockbuster video stores all over America are closing their doors. People simply don't need their services anymore. That's the free market. But what if President Obama said, "You know what? Blockbuster employs a lot of people, so I'm going to earmark billions of taxpayer dollars to keep these franchises open. Sure, they have no real customers, but hey, there's no work like busy work."
May 13, 2013 Every week, Bill lays down his own laws. Here is the latest set of New Rules from the last episode:
New Rule: [slide of Ariel Castro] If you want to avoid being accused of kidnaping girls and keeping them chained in your basement, you have to make at least some effort to not look exactly like the kind of guy who would kidnap girls and keep them chained in your basement.
May 13, 2013 Bill and guests -- Mark Bittman, Zachary Quinto, Charles Cooke, Glenn Greenwald, Joy Reid -- answer fan questions from the latest show.
May 10, 2013 
The third and final round of our Craziest Congressman Countdown commences tonight in an all-out clash of the cretins as Georgia clown Paul Broun takes on Twin City ninny Michele Bachmann!
Let's take a look back at our previous match-ups:
Barton vs. King:
Gohmert vs. DesJarlais
Cast your vote for the winning wackjob and tune in tonight at 10PM to see Bill announce this year's Stupor Bowl champ!
May 10, 2013 By Bill Maher
Great news: According to the Pew Research Center, the wealth of American households (the sum of all assets and holdings, including car, home, possessions etc., minus household debt) rose by 14% in the period between 2009 and 2011. We're back, baby! We are all a whopping $5 trillion richer. And by "all," I mean not you, but rich people.
May 10, 2013 By Bill Maher
My usual friends on the right can't believe that I said that, during the hunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, Massachusetts looked like a "police state," just because it was a state full of police.
May 9, 2013 By Bill Maher
Recent polling suggests that some of the senators who voted against background checks are taking a hit for it, and Joe Manchin, one of the sponsors of the bill, is saying he's going to bring it back up. But here's the problem: it's not a great bill in the first place, and even if it were, it could never pass the House of Representatives.
If the anti-gun people really want to get guns off the streets, they have to start thinking more like the anti-abortion people. Part of that is getting states and localities to restrict guns more -- that's already happening in places like New York and Colorado. But there's something else they could do: go after providers and make it unbearable for them to be in the killing machine business. This is essentially what the anti-abortion movement has done with abortion providers. The results? Today, 48 states have fewer abortion providers than in they did in 1978.
May 9, 2013 VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00pm to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health...for Good
By Mark Bittman (May 10, 2013) - "Six years ago, an overweight, pre-diabetic Mark Bittman faced a medical directive: adopt a vegan diet or go on medication. He was no fan of a lifelong regimen of pills, but as a food writer he lived-and worked-to eat. So neither choice was appealing.
