Slightly off-topic, but thanks for the link! I’m always looking for good podcasts to listen to while running. 
Whaaaa??? You think there’s a human being alive who is less smug and smarmy than Dennis Miller? I’ll admit that I haven’t watched Miller as much since he became an obnoxiously vociferous conservative, but even when he wasn’t spouting political glurge, his act consisted of rants loaded with obscure cultural references that screamed “I’m waaaayyyy more intelligent than any of you morons.” I got most of his allusions and was impressed by his intelligence, but always annoyed by his overpowering egomania.
I don’t think Bill Maher can hold a candle to Miller in the smug-stakes.
Have to disagree; I think he’s got a shot at the title. Miller’s material might be pretentious, but I don’t recall seeing him lay an egg and then chide the audience for being too dim to understand the joke. Maher does that all the freaking time, and looks like a smug jerk doing it. Dude, we get it, but sometimes your shit’s just not funny.
Miller reeks with smugness and pretension. Maher can actually hold conversations with his guests without taking over and showing off. Miller looks for every opportunity to show off .
Oh I dont doubt Miller thinks he is smarter than the average bear and likes to show it off or at least does show it off. And probably more than Maher.
But, again IMO, he doesnt seem to display hate or have strong contempt for the people the people he thinks he is smarter than. Its the difference between thinking your smarter than someone, and thinking because you are smarter you are better. So its a different kinda smug.
Again, this is just my impression.
Sixty? You seriously understate the number of whackos in the Dem party. One of the aforesaid crackpots almost made into Obama’s administration (cite).
Regards,
Shodan
“Did Bush know about the 9/11 attacks in advance” =/= “Was Bush behind 9/11”?
In any case, anyone with any common sense at all recognizes that Bush was aware that Al Quaeda was planning a major attack on US soil. The phrasing of the question does not distinguish between whether he knew of the details of the attack in advance, which only the crazies believe.
The problem I have with Miller is that he just isn’t funny, although I haven’t watched him in quite a few years. I was very hopeful about his show on Fox, since I had always liked him before, but it was really, really, bad. Embarrassingly bad.
I find him a lot like Dennis Miller in that respect. No funny, no funny, no funny, and then he’ll say something earth shatteringly funny. Then no more funny for the rest of the season.
Which makes you a prime candidate for an H1N1 fatality:
strong immune system in strong healthy adult that has never see this critter = high likelihood of a cytokine storm.
When speaking of Bill Maher, the above sentence is all that needs to be said.
An excellent antidote for antivax stupidity appears in today’s N.Y. Times (or if you prefer, an immunization against antivax nuttery).
Paul Offit M.D., infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (and developer of an effective antirotavirus vaccine) talks about the safety of the H1N1 vaccine and debunks the myths being spread about it.
The man is one of my heroes.
It says something truly awful about the state of our country that Offit doesn’t dare do a book tour because he’s actually afraid of being killed by the nuts:
:eek:
I haven’t got my flu shot yet but I’m looking forward to it. In regard to Maher’s antivaccine nuttery, it is a relatively mild case. If you want to see an extreme one, google Jane Burgermeister. According to her, Big Pharma, the WHO, the UN and the Illuminati are planning to kill 5/6 of the world’s population through the flu immunization program.
Honestly, these people piss me even more than Creationists. I think it has to do with being a lefty who actually paid attention in High School science.
Exactly. And he seems to be all about hate and contempt which is why I can’t really think of him as a liberal. He often paints with too broad a brush, stereotyping Southerners and women, for example.
I can understand his stereotyping Southerners out of ignorance, much as Chris Matthews does. But he really doesn’t seem to have very much that’s pleasant to say about women other than on an almost adolescent level.
I knew my advancing age, poor diet, and lack of exercise would save my ass some day 
Now even Limbaugh has jumped on the Anti-Vax band wagon, because the government says you should get a flu shot means it’s nonsense.
http://mediamatters.org/print/research/200910070043
Now the right wing is attacking scientific medicine because liberals support it. Limbaugh also shills for Homeopathic “treatments” like Zicam. Are all conservatives that divorced from reality?
Well that’s our Fascist government for you, demanding that everyone get a flu shot or you’ll be put in FEMA detention camps. :rolleyes:
There does seem to be a correlation between antivaxery and antigovernment/libertarian views. Ron Paul, for instance (an embarassment to the medical profession) thinks the effort to combat H1N1 is a “hoax” designed to get us to pass a healthcare bill and enrich Big Pharma. His loopier followers see far darker designs afoot. Here’s the startling evidence forflu-vaccine-as-weapon-of-mass-destruction, as alluded to by a previous poster*.
*who hasn’t posted since warning us of the Bilderberger threat, which probably means he’s been “disappeared”, a fate that threatens anyone who reveals
Any truth to the rumour that Limbaugh is refusing to eat his broccoli, too?