Bill Maher and the Electric Babysitter

This week's New Rules from Real Time. He's got some words of wisdom that's equally applicable to NZ schools:

HBO gets real

Every Sunday morning used to be a bugger's muddle of trying to find Real Time with Bill Maher on YouTube before HBO had the episode pulled. HBO has finally capitulated and set up its own Bill Maher Channel, ending this mad scramble for intelligent debate. Good work, guys!

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.

Sweet Child o' Melamine

The chances of TVNZ forking out for a political cross-examination program to replace Agenda seems as dead-and-alive as Schrodinger's Cat right now. While we wait for signs of life from the box, at least Bill Maher's back. Here's the first New Rules for 2009, featuring a suggestion for Wall St from the melamine saga: