Saturday, September 26, 2009

More Maher Brilliance

While I find Letterman about as funny as motion sickness, Bill Maher is good value. This week's Real Time with Bill Maher was a case in point. Michael Moore talks about Capitalism, A Love Story, while Maher ribs him on his solution (fair go). Paul Krugman and Eliot Spitzer talk on the economy. Then director John Waters joins in and adds some surreal threads to the debate. New Rules is just great too. My meat flavoured milk idea turns up, albeit baconnaised.

4 comments:

Tom Degan's Daily Rant said...

Did you read Bill Maher's comment on the Huffington Post yesterday? He was decrying the dumbing down of America.

While I admire Bill Maher a great deal, I am forced to take issue here. This pitiful America of which he speaks is very real. Of that there can be little doubt to anyone who has bothered to pay attention. But like a lot of people on the Left (I am sorry to say) he totally ignores - whether by accident or design - the undeniable advantages of living in the America of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

For example:

I never finished High School. In fact I dropped out at the very beginning of my Junior year. In spite of this unfortunate fact, the I.Q. of my country has dropped to such a horrifying degree in the last thirty years, whenever I arrive at a gathering of, say, two or three-hundred people, I am reasonably confident that I am the smartest person in the room.

Do you have any idea how utterly cool that is? Lighten up, Bill.

http://wwwtomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

Will de Cleene said...

Gudday Tom,

Cheers for the rant. Frankly, I'd hate to be the smartest guy in the room. I couldn't bear that burden of responsibility.

Tom Degan's Daily Rant said...

I imagine I wouldn't be so self-confident if I were to enter a large enough room in Australia. Rumor has it that you folks are still educating your children there. Could that possibly be true?

Cheers!

Tom Degan

Will de Cleene said...

Our education system isn't quite the trainwreck in the US, especially your inner-city schools. But we do have our problems.