Rising pneumonia, reassuring vaccine safety

Dr. Orin Levine, 11.26.2009

Executive Director, International Vaccine Access Center at Johns Hopkins University

On the busiest travel day of the year in the United States, there was unwelcome and welcome news from the US CDC.  On the one hand, Dr. Anne Schu...

Funny Business

Jonathan Tisch, 11.10.2009

Chairman & CEO, Loews Hotels and Co-Chairman Loews Corp

New York City can be a funny place. Last week the city was hilarious thanks to the sixth annual New York Comedy Festival, a week-long celebration of stand-up comedy.

Base to Obama: Come In, Please

Richard (RJ) Eskow, 11.04.2009

Consultant, Writer, Health Analyst

Obama seems to be deliberately moving his party rightward in order to capture the political spectrum from center/right to left. He wants to become the Tony Blair of American politics.

Is This as Good as It Gets From Obama?

Bill Maher, 11.03.2009

Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

If Obama had really charged in there riding the forceful energy of the historic election, there really could have been an historic "first hundred days." Instead of what happened, which is the Obamas got a dog.

Get your flu shots -- and ignore Bill Maher

Harold Pollack, 10.17.2009

I just want to endorse Linda Bergthold's recent HuffPo column about Bill Maher. Maher is a funny guy who often displays a sharp intellect. On matters ...

An Open Letter to Bill Maher on Vaccinations

Michael Shermer, 10.16.2009

Publisher Skeptic magazine

From Fellow Skeptic Michael Shermer Editor of Skeptic magazine and "Skeptic" columnist for Scientific American Dear Bill, Years ago you invited me t...

New Rule: Everyone Deserves Equal Rights

Bill Maher, 10.10.2009

Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

This weekend is the perfect time for Obama to announce he's repealing "don't ask, don't tell" and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. But of course that's not going to happen.

Sleepless Supernova: Propofol Lullabies In Neverland

Qanta Ahmed, MD, 12.01.2009

Board Certified Physician, Internationally Published Author, "In the Land of Invisible Women".

That an anesthesiologist could be on tour with Michael administering propofol is both baffling and repugnant. The King of Pop was effectively anaesthetized every night, while our profession was asleep at the wheel.

Opposition to Health Care Reform Peaks Early, But Falls Fast -- Like Sarah Palin?

Yuna Shin, 11.30.2009

If you rise too fast and peak too early, then you fall just as hard. It is a lesson that the GOP needs to learn in order to stay relevant for the majority of Americans who consider themselves to be in the center.

Bill Maher, Roman Polanski and Barack Obama

Craig Alan Silverman, 11.29.2009

Denver lawyer and co-host of 630 KHOW’s Caplis & Silverman Show

Lineage and religion -- they are killer topics. It's not easy to escape religious roots. No one makes their own choice at birth regarding religion, yet ancestry and religious rules decide a lot.

New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle

Bill Maher, 11.25.2009

Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

If America can't get its act together, it must lose the bald eagle as our symbol and replace it with the YouTube video of the puppy that can't get up. As long as we're pathetic, we might as well act like it's cute.

How To Live On $0 A Day: This Could Be the Best Health Care Reform Plan You're Gonna Get

Lesley Stern, 11.24.2009

Writer, counselor to the nouveau poor

Sex is also a good, inexpensive form of exercise that doesn't require getting out of bed (although it may compel you to leave the fetal position). This will require a partner since batteries are costly.

Top Nine Reasons to See Bill Maher Perform at the 2009 NYCF

New York Comedy Festival, 11.16.2009

5. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report don't tape on Sunday. What are you supposed to debate with your co-workers on Monday?

New Rule: Conspiracy Weary

Bill Maher, 11.08.2009

Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

Healthcare Despair

Dr. Susan Corso, 10.16.2009

Omnifaith spiritual expert

Until everyone has health care none of us really do.

For Team Obama, A Refresher on Jack Johnson and "The Great White Hope"

Dave Zirin, 10.16.2009

Sports correspondent for the Nation Magazine

In 1918, the first black heavyweight boxing champion defeated a racist "great white hope." But when the Obama Administration takes a right hook to the face, it just smiles through bloodied teeth.

New Rule: No Shame in Being the Sorry Party

Bill Maher, 09.21.2009

Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

New Rule: If Mitt Romney, Karl Rove and Sarah Palin all think America has never done anything wrong, we must be doing something wrong.

New Rule: Oys In The Attic

Bill Maher, 09.18.2009

Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

New Rule: A-hole in One Shouldn't Be Obama's Game

Bill Maher, 09.14.2009

Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"

I've got news for you, Mr. President, the people who think you want to kill their Great Aunt Millie aren't swayed by a photo-op on the golf course. The only sand trap I want to see you get out of is Afghanistan.

The Top Nine Reasons to Attend the New York Comedy Festival

New York Comedy Festival, 09.12.2009

8. You've always heard that Tracy Morgan is a lunatic on stage, but you've never experienced it for yourself.

New Rule: Evolutionary Guard

Bill Maher, 09.11.2009

Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"