Daily Hilarity: The Death Of Lying

Bill Maher in top form last week, covering all the ways you can get caught in a lie in the information age: Your Thoughts?

Bill Maher Teases Andrew Sullivan Over His Sarah Palin Fixation

As a huge Daily Dish fan, I loved this: Your Thoughts?

Bill Maher Defends Contemporary Western Religion?

Compared to the alternative… Some thoughts of my own on the pros and cons of religious moderates. Your Thoughts?

Daily Hilarity: Accu-Wrath Forecast

A great, older Bill Maher bit I only just discovere: Your Thoughts?

Richard Dawkins’s Speech Awarding Bill Maher

Here’s the video of Dawkins balancing honoring Bill Maher with recognizing his disagreements with Maher’s views on medicine. And then going on to give a solid speech about both the virtues of Maher’s work and the religulousness exposed in Maher’s film. Warning, there’s an annoying ringing sound and some bizarre burbling noises throughout the video. [...]

Maher And Dawkins During The AAI

Last night, Bill Maher received an award named for Richard Dawkins and before arriving at the awards show to accept the award, he was on TV live with Dawkins while the conference watched.  And, btw, in this video, Thomas Friedman has a remark that I think is one of the most insightful you’ll hear about [...]

Judge This: Hitchens On Whether Islamist Jihad Is Justifiable Response To Western Imperialism

The question is morally challenging but I think Hitchens’s reply is compelling and impressive.  Your Thoughts? And for a bonus, to add more fuel to the fire of this topic, here is (a hilarious) Bill Maher on why our extremists are not as bad as Muslim ones: Your Thoughts?

Brad Pitt’s No Religion Platform

Atheist Media Blog is all over this story.

Bill Maher A Controversial Richard Dawkins Award Winner

Orac explains the prize (which is given by the Atheist Alliance, not Dawkins or his foundation themselves) : The Richard Dawkins Award will be given every year to honor an outstanding atheist whose contributions raise public awareness of the nontheist life stance; who through writings, media, the arts, film, and/or the stage advocates increased scientific [...]

Jeff Sharlet On The Family

Last night on Real Time With Bill Maher, Jeff Sharlet, the profiler of The Family:

Dawkins vs. Collins (Obama’s New NIH Selection)

RichardDawkins.net has reprinted a 2006 debate between Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins, the prominent (and now powerful) proponent of compatibility between religion and science who has recently been selected by Obama to head up the NIH.  The article has some really interesting moments, so I recommend you read it in full.  Here is what I [...]

Daily Hilarity: “The Reason For Everything and the Purpose of Life”

Bill Maher reads from Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life for an encore… “Rick Warren, he knows God–Knows him? He talks about him like they were in the Rat Pack together”