Bill Maher in Vanity Fair— Read Him and Weep with Laughter or Scream with Rage!
Gwyneth Paltrow Says She Refuses To Be a Vanity Fair Cover Girl Anymore. (Can This Be The True Apocalypse?!)
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
by Liz Smith
“THE Buddha says not to dwell on the past, or dream of the future, but concentrate on the moment. Or maybe that was Dr. Oz ...” writes my pet complainer Bill Maher.
I know, I know. I am driving you mad with quotations and references from the 100th anniversary issue of Vanity Fair magazine, but the sucker is so big, that I discover new things I want to pass on everyday. Especially so since I doubt the majority of you read magazines anymore as many of you can’t keep your mind on a subject unless it is printed the size of the eye of a needle and nestled in your palm.
My pal Maher comments better and more bitterly than most. He is followed in Vanity Fair, however, by some very thoughtful types who are equally skeptical of our recent history going back to World War I.
Bill Maher once dropped everything and traveled to NYC and back to L.A. in one single night because I asked him for a favor — to read for Literacy Partners. He is naturally a sexy favorite of mine and someone I frequently agree with. (He goes on to say in his sum-up of the years 2000, that he dislikes thinking of “our” time now because it is all tied up with George W. Bush whom he refers to as “a privileged Texas dry drunk with a mean streak, a staggering lack of intellectual curiosity, and a Lennie-and-George relationship with something called Dick Cheney. On the bright side, God called Dick Cheney home. Unfortunately, he refused to go.”
This is pretty devastating commentary but Bill Maher is no one to mince words and I think he has plenty of detractors out there who love those big billboards of the 43rd President all over the red states asking: “Miss me yet?”
Bill says in the 2000s, we fortunately got Daniel Craig as James Bond but he mourns the fact that when Bush entered office there was a surplus.
A year later, the budget fell to a deficit of $158 billion. The national debt had nearly doubled. We had two wars and passed the tipping point in climate change. We lost two towers, the Pentagon became a tetragon, New Orleans sank. We almost lost the banking system, and General Motors. NASDAQ lost 48 % of its value.
All this Maher writes, including that Pluto is not a planet anymore but we’ve got Wikipedia. He says we began not listening to people while checking out our texts and white people no longer have to talk to their children on car trips. He equally knocks republican Sarah Palin and Democrat John Edwards. Maher claims that in the 2000s we have lost the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, the Seventh Amendment, and the Eighth. We gained “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.”
There’s a lot more if you want to lose your temper or die laughing. |
