May 17, 2013 By Bill Maher
A new e-book came out this week called A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign: An Insider's Account. It was written by Clint Eastwood's chair. No it wasn't, it was written by some whiny grifter named Gabriel Schoenfeld, who was a "senior advisor" to the campaign. The book focuses on the day of the Benghazi attack, and how Mitt Romney tripped over his dick.
May 16, 2013 By Bill Maher
"Please sir, I want some more." -Oliver/The Jackson Family
Michael Jackson's mother is suing a concert promoter for employing a doctor whose reaction to seeing his patient OD was to call a doctor. She wants $40 billion. Because right up until the end there, everything was going great.
May 14, 2013 By Bill Maher
It's often said that you can measure the health of a society by how readily it believes in conspiracy theories. ...OK, maybe it's not often said, because I just made it up, but it should be. Because it's true.
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 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 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.
