Bill Maher can be pretty good, except when he gets "important." Maher's all over the place politically.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

I have three children and three dogs. You put them in a Prius, you know? People who have a Prius obviously have no life! No wife, no kids, no pets - there's no room in there for anything!

It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.