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.
May 9, 2013 The Interview:
Mark Bittman is a food columnist for The New York Times, where he also hosts a weekly cooking demonstration. His latest book is VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health...for Good. Bittman explained the basics of his new eating plan in a recent interview with Dujour.
May 8, 2013 By Bill Maher
Last month, a federal judge in Brooklyn ordered the FDA to make the morning-after pill available without a prescription. He basically said that the science was in, and it was safer than Motrin, and the only reason it hadn't been approved in the first place was Jesus politics. Okay, he didn't say those things but that's what it came down to.
May 8, 2013 By Miles Leicher
Check out what went on behind the scenes of the latest Real Time:
May 8, 2013 By Bill Maher
There's a new push by the right to paint the Obamas as President Nero and his wife Marie Antoinette. It cropped up most recently after the White House Correspondent's Dinner: How could they, especially now, when we're overtaxed and the government is supposed to be cutting back, be having dinner! Don't they know we're in the middle of a series of (politically manufactured) economic crises?!
This particular "outrage" doesn't even make sense, really, because there's nothing especially opulent about renting a ballroom in the Hilton and having your trade association's annual banquet. But the criticism has to be leveled, because the formula is now always "How could Obama be doing x while the country is in such dire straits?" Where x equals every single thing Obama does -- eating, traveling, seeing shows or sporting events, entertaining dignitaries -- really anything that doesn't involve sitting behind his desk in the oval office and signing documents by candlelight.
May 7, 2013 By Bill Maher
At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, just about every media outlet was taking shit from the presenters about how often they got it wrong in these last few weeks. CNN, for its ridiculous and inaccurate coverage of the Boston bombings; Buzzfeed, for getting it all wrong too; MSNBC for being in the pocket of the White House; Fox News for being in the pocket of evil.
