Bill Maher had an excellent piece during the “New Rules” section of last week’s Real Time about how the popularity of the NFL, particularly relative to Major League Baseball, proves the merits of socialism over unrestrained capitalism. It’s such a good idea for a column, it makes me wish that I had thought of it. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Bill Maher'
Trendsetting
February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Sports
Tags: baseball·Bill Maher·Capitalism·football·NFL·self-promotion·socialism
Fair is Unbalanced
November 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics
I’ve been quoting Bill Maher quite a bit lately on this blog. And I’m going to have to go ahead and do so again, because while I was slow to organize my thoughts on Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity,” Maher pretty much went ahead and aired them on his show last Friday. You need [...]
Tags: Bill Maher·Jon Stewart·Keith Olbermann·Rally to Restore Sanity
Why to Vote (Democratic): Bill Maher Edition
November 1st, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics
“I know progressives are disillusioned, you know, you hate the Democrats. Well, I hate my cell phone company, but I don’t replace it by rubbing dogshit on my teeth.” and “Now in case Democrats and independents don’t have enough motivation to get out to the polls, let me offer a little Halloween message of what [...]
Tags: 2010 elections·Bill Maher·GOTV
What He Said
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Sports
From the very first words I had published on the Internet, I’ve tried to come up with clever ways to tie the world of sports to more important issues. Never have I been as successful as Bill Maher in this clip: -AR Update: The HBO police have taken the video off the web, but here’s [...]
Tags: Bill Maher·bleeding heartery·Brett Favre·Christine O'Donnell·Michelle Bachmann·Sarah Palin·white men
Pro-Post Office
August 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics
Paul Krugman makes the helpful point that when people make the “Do you really want health care to be run like the DMV/post office?” argument, they should be reminded of awful experiences with private companies, such as the cable company. Two experiences last week drove home for me how strong a point this. On Tuesday [...]
Tags: AT&T·Bill Maher·DMV·health care·Paul Krugman·post office·runaround·socialism