Tag: Bill Maher

Gender Apartheid

“In many countries, one category of human beings don’t even have the right to show their face – that’s apartheid, and it should be the social justice issue of our time.” — Bill Maher.

I enormously enjoy Bill Maher’s HBO show, particularly the segment on “New Rule.” Today I’d like to share this one. He has a wicked sense of humor, and I am sure that he has a great bunch of writers.

Naturally I don’t agree with him on most issues dealing with politics and economics. He’s a leftist and a “progressive”. I’m the opposite. But his social commentary is most of the time spot on. More than most commentators, he funny as all heck.  Continue reading “Gender Apartheid”

I don’t have a Facebook account

I’m not going to sugarcoat it. I think people who have facebook accounts are super losers. Let’s face it, the overwhelmingly vast majority of the people (including yours truly) are losers in some way or the other. But what sets super losers apart from garden variety losers is that the former have facebook accounts.

The only positive thing that facebook has inadvertently done is to create a simple test for determining whether one is a super loser or not. It would have been very difficult to estimate the number of super losers in the world but thanks to facebook, you can get an accurate count — the number of facebook accounts. Bill Maher should have pointed that out in his “New Rule” segment about facebook. Here’s that bit:

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