Richard Dawkins on Real Time

Bill Maher interviewed Richard Dawkins on his show a few days ago. HBO gets upset about copyright and keeps forcing these clips to get pulled. So here are two different sources of the same thing in case one gets pulled in the future.

The first source below is the whole show. Other guests include Andrew Ross Sorkin and PJ O'Rourke - so the whole show is worth a watch. But Dawkins is the first guest - so skip ahead to 7:15 if you only want to see him. And the show gets pretty funny again from 44:55:



And if the vid for the whole show above gets yanked, you can see just the Dawkins interview segment here.

Bill Maher interviews Richard Tillman

For those of you who don't know the Tillman story - here's the intro from Wikipedia:

Patrick Daniel "Pat" Tillman (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in June 2002, in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks. He joined the United States Army Rangers and served multiple tours in combat before he died in the mountains of Afghanistan. Initially, the U.S. government attempted a cover-up, reporting that Tillman had been killed by enemy fire, with Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal approving a Silver Star citation. Later, his actual cause of death by friendly fire was recognized.

A New York Times book review of Jon Krakauer's Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman noted that the book did well to compile the facts and "nauseating" details regarding the cover-up of Tillman's death, stating "After Tillman’s death, Army commanders, aided and abetted by members of the Bush administration, violated many of their own rules, not to mention elementary standards of decency, to turn the killing into a propaganda coup for the American side."

So Bill Maher interviewed Pat's brother Richard last month on his show. The whole thing is worth a watch, but for those in a rush it gets good between 4:30 and 7:05:

Not What The Religulous Want To See. . .

These graphs were taken from the OK Trends blog, which is authored by a couple of statisticians from OK Cupid. The sample data driving the graphs below was taken from 526,000 OK Cupid profiles with user self-stated race, and then analysed using the Coleman-Liau Index to analyse the profile text. This is what they found:

. . . . And in case you never made it to the cinema to see it, here is Bill Maher's most excellent Religulous in its entirety: