Ride Alone, Ride With Bin Laden - Bill Maher

The Pickle reviewed this beast before me, and I'll probably not be as cynical. We both appreciate the book, its interesting, funny, and full of common sense. Bullets, Bullets, Bullets, the best way I can highlight the points I remember.

For my right wing nutjob friends, yea Bill is quite cynical, but a role of a good critique is important in society, but he makes some really good points. I promise to listen to what Blowhard Limbaugh has to say too.

• We are a pain averse society! Anything that brings us comfort in time of pain takes top priority.
• Muslims need their own version of Chris Rock to point up fucked up things in their traditions without the fear of them getting their head chopped off.
• You should be more weary and fear decent people with the capacity to do shitty things more than shitty people doing shitty things
• Being aware of things, doing your homework, travelling, comparing, understanding that God Blesses the world, not just America, makes you a stronger patriot in this country than the uninformed / blind 'patriots' that slap magnets on their vehicles.
• Ignorance is the enemy, and not knowing why people hate the United States is exactly the reason why people hate the United States
• Drugs don't support terrorists, oil does, and the next time you drive your tank or hummer to the PTO meeting, you are supporting terrorists. Terrorists get money from the same place we get money, our families.
• What's the big deal about cultural hegemony? Pokemon is Japanese, Harry Potter is English, Soccer is boring. Just don't eat the fucking shitty fast food at Burger King, McDonald's, or Pizza Hut right across the street from Segrada Familia?!
• USA has carried the lightest stick of any superpower that's ever been.
• And when you don't carpool to work, the invisible figure of Bin Laden is riding with you. And yes, us Americans are in love with our automobiles.

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." - Arthur Schopenhauer