This week Bill Maher’s comedy/news bit on “Real Time” mourns the lack of bipartisanship in American politics—something that was once admired but now is denigrated. His two examples of how both parties contributed to improving society involve drugs—the dramatic decrease of death from street drugs like fentanyl as well as the price drops in widely-used…
Bill Maher on accidental bipartisanship
Bill Maher on accidental bipartisanship
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Slice: Keith Floyd cooks whale meat in Greenland
29 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
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Fawlty Towers
14 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
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The key to good comedy is timing, someone once said. If that is the case John Cleese and Connie Booth must have the best sense of timing ever. As the title suggests I am talking about ‘Fawlty Towers’ although it may seem there were hundreds of episodes, there were in fact only 12, spread over […]
Fawlty Towers
Bill Maher schools the young and the anti-Israel Democrats
14 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
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At the end of September I posted about the BBC’s refusal to use the word “terrorist” when referring to Hamas. They could use it when quoting other people, but you can’t call a terrorist a terrorist when it applies to Palestinians who kill civilians for political, ideological, or religious aims. This also applies to other…
Bill Maher schools the young and the anti-Israel Democrats
The Best of Sir Humphrey from Series 1 | Yes, Minister | BBC Comedy Greats
09 Sep 2026 1 Comment
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State Film Subsidies Lose Money. Trump Wants To Try the Idea Nationally.
04 Sep 2026 1 Comment
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There’s “no reason to think a federal incentive would work any differently from state incentives,” says one expert.
State Film Subsidies Lose Money. Trump Wants To Try the Idea Nationally.
Bill Maher’s “new rule”: the young are puppeteering the lunatrocracy
30 Aug 2026 1 Comment
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In yesterday’s “Real Time” comedy-and-politics bit, Bill Maher calls attention to the fact that much of the real work in Congress isn’t done by the older Senators and Representatives, but rather by their staff, who may be “too young.” In other words, the 20-somethings are writing the bills, and, as Maher said, “the kids are…
Bill Maher’s “new rule”: the young are puppeteering the lunatrocracy
Bill Maher promotes the resumption of workplace romances
23 Aug 2026 1 Comment
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In his “New rule” comedy-and-news/opinion segment of Real Time, Bill Maher argues that there’s been too much disapproveal of romances in the workplace. (He mentions the draconian rule proposed by AOC, which demonizes romances between people in Congress and any staffer, no matter who they work for, even though Congresspeople are already prohibited from dating…
Bill Maher promotes the resumption of workplace romances
Bill Maher’s latest bit: Communism, the DSA, and the Democrats
02 Aug 2026 1 Comment
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Bill Maher’s back after his summer vacation, and his latest “new rule” bit starts in with some hard criticism of the “far far Left”—the progressives—for being close to Communists, and the Democratic Socialists of America for using Communist jargon. I’ve talked before about the DSA’s platform, which includes abolishing the Senate and ditching the President…
Bill Maher’s latest bit: Communism, the DSA, and the Democrats
Red Dwarf – An excellent suggestion, sir, with just two minor drawbacks
22 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
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Bill Maher on Graham Platner
15 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
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I wondered what Bill Maher thought about the sketchy Graham Platner and his run as a Democrat for the Senate seat from Maine. Well, see the video below. Maher realizes that Platner is a “broken person,” but we’re “always electing our reflection in the mirror.” And he thinks that Dems should still vote for Platner…
Bill Maher on Graham Platner
The Pre-Trek Years: Gene Roddenberry’s Career from Bomber Pilot to LAPD Speechwriter
15 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
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Before he built the final frontier, Gene Roddenberry lived a life that read like an adventure novel. Long before he was a Hollywood showrunner preaching a utopian future of interstellar cooperation, Roddenberry was a decorated combat pilot, an international airline captain, and a street-hardened Los Angeles police officer. These early chapters of his career did […]
The Pre-Trek Years: Gene Roddenberry’s Career from Bomber Pilot to LAPD Speechwriter
Hayekian Literary Criticism
09 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
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In economics, Marx is relegated to the history of thought as his ideas were an economic dead end and a political disaster. Yet Marx-influenced literary criticism is a dominant mode of analysis in nearly every English department in the country. It’s not that the English professors are all Marxists, it’s that even the non-Marxists reach…
Hayekian Literary Criticism
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