Before I write anything else, let me note that a little counter that I can see but you can't informs me this is post #25,999 on this blog.
Folks are asking me to comment on a piece Bill Maher wrote the other day in which, they say, he trashes Stan Lee. It's here it you want to read it. Personally, I think he's trashing everyone of a certain age who writes or even reads comic books. That would include me and it might even include you.
I think Maher's a pretty smart guy about certain topics. Even when I disagree with him about politics — which I do, at times — I usually think he's raised a good point that's worthy of discussion. I don't care much about what he has to say about health and nutrition and I guess we can add comic books to that list. If I did care, I might point out that just about everything he thinks about grown people fawning over Stan is true of grown men who used to hang around the Playboy Mansion and suck up to Hef. But I don't care so I won't point that out.
By the way: One gent who wrote to me asked me to also give my views of Maher's repeated insistence that if/when Donald Trump loses the 2020 election, he ain't leaving; that he'll just declare it "rigged" and "fake news" and he'll try to go on being president. This, to me, is based on a number of unwarranted assumptions including that Trump will even be on the ballot that year. But if he is and if he loses and if he then barricades himself in the Oval Office, then I think it would depend on what G.O.P. leaders do about it and what military leaders do about it. If they all back him then we wouldn't have a country. Which is why I can't believe they'd back him.