When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden
What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Bill Maher lost his show back in 2002 when he said that the 9/11 terrorists were not cowards. He wrote this book to highlight what the government should be telling us rather than the misinformation and terror alert level we get (Code Orange, do I need a sweater today?). His major points: 1) Ask Amer......more

An insightful look at this issue. I picked it up after watching an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.......more

I've always been a fan of Maher's talk show and thought it'd be fun to check out his comedy in the written word. Unfortunately, it was a little light on both comedy and substance for my tastes. There's plenty of gags to be found but they really take a back seat to the political points Maher is trying......more

What a difference two decades hath wrought. Or, the more things change, are they more or less the same? I picked up “When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden” in 2002, not long after Bill Maher was fired by ABC over comments he made about “cowardice” (as in, the 9/11 hijackers, while many many te......more

Rating - 7.4 Not as quick a read as expected, but due to some deep editorial content - has interesting views on how America can improve its situation and really points out the homo-economicus theory Starts becoming repetitious fifty pages in, and loses value in the overall message; Perhaps more social......more