Don’t you love it when for some reason, someone needs to tell you a password they made up, and it becomes clear they never expected to actually say out loud? I love the way they break down the letters, it usually goes something like this…

“OK click on `Internet banking’”

“Uh huh”

“Account number is 2046629″

“Yep. Password?”

“Capital I, L, lower O, V…”

“Yeah”

“E, T, O, D, R, E…”

“Mmm hmm…”

“S, S, U, P, L, I…”

“Yep”

“K, E, A, B, A, B, Y, A…”

“OK”

“N, D, G, E, T…. [cough]”

“Mmm hmm?”

“S, P, A, N. Oh and I guess then there’s a K, and an E, and then a D.”

“That’s it?”

“Yeah I think so.”

“OK, I’m in. Cool. So, you like to dress up like a baby and get spanked? What’s that all about?”

“…”

Just watched Bill Maher on the Daily Show. For those not familiar with Bill, he is the the host of his own political comedy show, and is something of a Jon Stewart lite.

He got in a few nice barbs about organised religion, and promoted his new movie, which apparently explores the theory that Scientology is extremely kooky (hold the phones!). He extolled the civilised, socially progressive America that is held back by its redneck counterpart. Jon Stewart even talked of him about casting his “skeptical eye” upon matters.

Many people will watch the interview and come away thinking “wow! That Bill Maher is a rational, no-bullshit, give-me-the-facts kind of guy! I’d like to subscribe to his newsletter!”

Unfortunately, it seems Bill has his own ignorant tendencies. It seems he doesn’t really buy into all this “western medicine” stuff. Specifically, he is in with the anti-vaccinationists, who rely on celebrity endorsements from people like Bill to spread their ignorant and potentially harmful ideas, which amount to little more than pseudo-science quackery.

Frankly, I think any rational person who is against immunising babies against deadly infectious diseases is either uninformed, or simply hates babies. For the sake of a nifty headline for this post, I’m going to just go ahead and assume its the latter.