We have met the enemy and he is us.

One for the archives. Bill Maher makes his point how dumb, ignorant and uneducated the majority of Americans are, and backs it up with facts. The people who dislike and hate Bill Maher, the pot smoking atheist comic, are the same people who belong to that category of ignorant, embarrassing dummies, according to this YouTube poster.

Why is it that the funny people on TeeVee in the U.S. seem to have a better handle on reality than our so-called leaders?

Actor Zach Galifianaki was recently spotted smoking weed on Bill Maher’s show Real Time on Home Box Office, you know, that cable channel where they get away with saying the word “fuck.” It didn’t take long for somebody to post it to YouTube.

The debate was over Tuesday’s ballot initiative in California to legalize the use of marijuana.

Legalizing marijuana appears to have broad support in the state, with some 56 percent of Californians saying they favor making it legal for social use and taxing the sales proceeds in a state with major budget problems. In October, Gallup found 44 percent of Americans favored legalization.

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Another unfavorable decade-old television clip of Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell has emerged, this time with the Delaware GOP Senate candidate saying she “dabbled in witchcraft,” according to AP.

The clip spread among websites as O’Donnell canceled appearances Sunday on two national news shows. Her campaign said she had to back out of the programs because of scheduling conflicts with events in Delaware.

Since O’Donnell’s upset of nine-term Rep. Mike Castle, opponents have unearthed unflattering age-old television clips. The most recent was aired by comedian Bill Maher, who dug up one of O’Donnell’s appearances on his “Politically Incorrect” show in 1999.

The context of what led to her comments is not clear, and O’Donnell is laughing while she talks.

“I dabbled into witchcraft. I never joined a coven,” she said. ” … I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do,” she said.

Ken Mehlman Admits He’s Gay

Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005-2007, has admitted in an interview to a New York tabloid Website that he is gay in spite of his anti-gay statements in the past.

During a live broadcast of CNN’s “Larry King Live” in 2006, Bill Maher suggested to that Mehlman was gay. Nearly four years later, Mehlman confirmed it.

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
- Sir Walter Scott

But I’m Not Wrong

Just watch it. I have nothing to add…

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it – the present, that is to say, must have become the past – before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.
-Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

Editor’s Note: I could say more, but this speaks for itself…

“I don’t want to live in a nation where I am in a hospital getting a treatment for $25,000 and a person just a few floors away is being denied the same treatment, because they have no money. What kind of civilization is that? What kind of moral order is that?”
-Bill Moyers, Real Time with Bill Maher

See parts two and three after the jump, plus the full text and more…

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For all our friends who can’t afford HBO as part of their cable package due to the economic meltdown…

Season premier of Real Time with Bill Maher, Friday, Feb. 20

It looks as though comedian Bill Maher has been reading this Website. Or perhaps as they say, great minds think alike : )

I’ve been advocating this position for years to eliminate the Bush deficit. In our recent review of Religulous, the hit movie that came out of an offshoot of one of his big routines over the years, we made it explicit. He didn’t in the movie. But he did on his HBO show Real Time on Nov. 14.