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Bill Maher was just on Letterman tonight promoting his upcoming Amazon.com half hour internet show. New episodes of Real Time are still due on HBO on August 25th.
Ode to our sound byte culture:
The truth is rarely black & white.
He made the statement that "drugs are good & religion is bad." Illegal drugs are indeed overly maligned, but to categorize them as uniformly "good" is not correct since they are a tool only to be used ideally at certain times & not abused & most are difficult not to abuse. Religion, especially the religious right, may be "bad", but to label all religion in this manner is highly irresponsible as well. He chided Dave for being coffee-dependent & used the word "benign" (just as I did in this thread) to describe marijuana.
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