Bill Maher's guests this week:

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/

This Week's Guests

Jay Leno, TV Host
Chuck Todd, journalist
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
Sam Harris, author
Jeremy Scahill, journalist

The End of FaithNew York Times Best Seller
Winner of the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction

The End of Faith provides a harrowing glimpse of mankind’s willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities. Harris argues that in the presence of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, he maintains that “moderation” in religion poses considerable dangers of its own: as the accommodation we have made to religious faith in our society now blinds us to the role that faith plays in perpetuating human conflict. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris draws on insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and Eastern mysticism in an attempt to provide a truly modern foundation for our ethics and our search for spiritual experience.

I had it, but lost it.

some guy here has posted a link for live streaming the show

can't wait to see what Chuck Todd has to say for himself

Leno, too, actually, cause I'll bet he tries to keep MOR

and Schakowsky disappointed me by not running for senate, though she has at least one skeleton (mabybe two) in her closet, that may have kept her from running

and is anybody else surprised Scahill is still breathing?

I've had enough trouble with stuff like that already

and thanks for the google tip....brain not work

I'm not exactly sure what you'd call him, but "journalist" isn't it.

(no offense to sex workers)

thanks

Watching Flight of the Conchords comedy show on Comedy Central.

HILARIOUS!! Those boys are truly talented.

Bill Maher brought up that US citizens hardly get any time off from work, when the rest of the world gets 4 weeks, etc...

Leno was acting like (paraphasing) "who goes on holiday?" "why travel?" It was ridiculous - what fucking DICK!!!

WTF???

I've read Leno HATES to travel though his wife loves it, and does.

I think it was tongue in cheek; we all know he can go and do whatever he wants, and has plenty of time off.

I think "paid time off" is something this country really needs to discuss and his flippant attitude pissed me off.

:hi:

Tonight show salary, living off the standup

"I had two jobs as a kid, one at a fast-food restaurant and one at a Ford dealership. And I'd put the money from one job in one pocket and spend it. And the other paycheck I'd save," he says. "I do that now. I have always banked my Tonight Show money and lived off the stand-up. I have one credit card, no mortgage, and I don't lease."



http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-07-16-leno-cover_N.htm

some place.

forum he is all out of it.
There is no need to trivialize for the sake of cheap humor something as important as the case Bill made for how unhealthy it is for Americans to not have enough paid time off to re-charge.

Leno was on the good side of all the issues. I think he was reaching for any occasion to try and come up with a funny and some of his efforts fell flat and out of place. He really blew it on the story about Blackwater getting blowjobs from child prostitutes, when he kept joking about blow jobs. That was really out of place on such a serious subject. He probably thought his role on the show was to be funny. But over all, he came off as a very liberal person.

Basically, the war of the idea that, the CONCEPT of 'free market' is more important than health care reform (more particularly, profiteering off the health and death of American citizens) is winning the health care debate is disgusting. Talk about moral equivalency: greed wins over basic human value, AGAIN *BLECH* f*ck (((sniffle))) When is the "free market" concept going to get it's fair share of CRITICAL REASON? Without rules and laws, there is no such thing as a "free" anything. Moreover, why should a 'market' be free when we pay out the ass for the water we drink, the roads we travel, the heat in our homes, the food we eat, etc and so forth. Let's talk about what is "FREE" and why the hell an American can't, at least, have FREE HEALTH CARE in a market that is FREE to spend us to death! Doesn't that make about as much sense as what the corporate whores spew at us?

(((BLAH)))

Anyways, the private militia being funded by "the people" is just as sickening; and the perpetuation and possible expansion under this administration is,....aweful! I am terribly discouraged to discover that this inspirational young President has failed to examine how such a policy is economically and politically and socially and internationally DESTRUCTIVE!!!

BOTH these issues involve basic human rights because, while there is such an incredible investment in controlling/destroying the 'bad guys', way too little attention is given to all the good struggling people who, after enough chronic suffering, just feel angry ALL THE TIME. If I were to advise President Obama, I'd tell him to split the difference: take half from the private militia and give it the proven humanitarian assistance organizations. He can even place time lines to see if humanitarianism works better than militarism BUT IT HAS TO BE AT LEAST ONE-HALF OF THE MONEY AND TIME SPENT ON MILITARISM, TO DATE!!!!

HMPF!!! Take the other half spent on privatizing our military and invest it on Americans' health care.