Bill Maher and his good buddy Hef

Bill Maher always has a lot to say. I never looked at his HBO site to see his on line presence, which is pretty impressive. Here is his Twitter account and his Myspace account. I guess both are key ingredients as a player and an entertainer but more about the player side and his buddy Hef later.

When there are gays in the military, legal weed in California and a fully implemented reasonable health care plan; I hope that I can blog something as brilliant as Bill Maher said last Friday on his HBO show.  Actually, I will be writting on the California situation and health care soon. I watched Bill's show and saw this in the Huffington Post and it was to good not to copy and put into the blog.
Tiger Woods' text messages to his mistress that were made public last week, where he said, and I quote, "I want to treat you rough, throw you around, spank and slap you and make you sore. I want to hold you down and choke you while I fuck that ass that I own. Then I'm going to tell you to shut the fuck up while I slap your face and pull your hair for making noise." Unquote.
And this, I believe, perfectly represents the attitude Democrats should now have in their dealings with the Republican Party: "Shut the fuck up while I slap your face for making noise -- now pass a cap-and-trade law, you stupid bitch, and repeat after me: 'global warming is real!'"
The Democrats need to push the rest of their agenda while their boot is on the neck of the greedy, poisonous old reptile. Who cares if a cap-and-trade bill isn't popular, neither was health care. Your poll numbers may have descended a bit, but so did your testicles.
So don't stop: we need to regulate the banks, we need to overhaul immigration, we need to end corporate welfare including at the Pentagon, we need to bring troops home from... everywhere, we need to end the drug war, and we need to put terrorists and other human rights violators on trial in civilian courts, starting with Dick Cheney.
Democrats in America were put on earth to do one thing: drag the ignorant hillbilly half of this country into the next century, which in their case is the 19th -- and by passing health care, the Democrats saved their brand. A few months ago, Sarah Palin mockingly asked them, "How's that hopey-changey thing working out for ya?" Great, actually. Thanks for asking. And how's that whole Hooked on Phonics thing working out for you?

I like Hugh Hefner and what red blooded American male doesn’t. When Bill Maher made a reference on his show to hanging out at the Playboy mansion and talking to girls half his age. Not unlike Joe Rogan, a fellow comedian who makes fun of marriage in his stand up act and living a very single, hedonist lifestyle. Joe has a great stand up on Hugh, which is a little harsh but it is honest and if you give it any thought, true!

Bill isn’t about to get married or even be an advocate for it. The recently divorced friend and fellow playa, Hugh Hefner, is an interesting case of contradictions. Not unlike Howard Stern, it seems like Hef is a guy who loves the idea of marriage but lives in a world of being an entertainer and personality whose persona is that of a man who loves wild, uninhibited woman. Stern leaves his on air persona at work though while Hugh lives a conflicted life of living in his mansion and the “idea” of the playboy bachelor. I am not a hater and I am happy for him but he has paid the price of wanting constant female companionship until it bores him.
This former girlfriend in the picture above, Carrie Leigh, who filed a 35 million dollar palamony suit against Hef after living with him and draining a fortune from him while playing him.  Ironically, Hef was about the age that Bill Maher is now when this was going on.  This was the 80’s and it was a rough decade for Hef. His empire was collapsing (which it is to a lesser degree presently, he is trying to sell the magazine but he isn’t having much luck). The death of Dorothy Stratten, in 1980, probley to much coke and a stroke at 59 in 1985. The right wing religious zealots; cut into his market share but banning the magazine from stores throughout the country and the Reagon era only encouraged this. The decade ended with an ill fated marriage to Kimberly Conrad in 1989 and the birth of his twin boys in 1990. The boys are grown up and maybe the lesson of their Father will be passed on, often players play, players pay.

Case in point...

Kimberly filed a $5 million lawsuit against Hef last August after Hef sold the house and didn't give her profits. He claims he's paid her nearly $12 million since they separated. The couple married in 1989 and have two adult sons.

UPDATE: In the docs, Hugh is asking the judge to set spousal support at $20,000 per month -- justifying such a small amount by saying he's already given Kimberly close to $12 million since their 1998 separation.

This just came about this year!  Maher watching his buddy go through this maybe why he comes out with comments like this...

He hates the concept of marriage, too. "I always compare marriage to communism," he says. "They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy."

Hef may sell the mag or just take it back for himself. With the ego variable a factor, I am guessing that he buys back shares of the business and passes it down to his daughter and his boys.