C'mon, this is pretty funny, especially the raccoon spelling out his identity with acorns.
I also like Maher's "new rules" attacking people with too many bumper stickers on their cars, and people who tattoo kanji on their body as if it were some special hierogylph.

I'm a tattooless Buddhist with too many bumper stickers, but I'm not going to get bent outta shape about Maher's comments. Much of great comedy relies on a kind of misperception, a persona the comedian embodies. Maher happens to play himself, and walks the line between pundit and comedian. (See George Carlin's diatribe on why he doesn't vote. I bet it's not going to convince you not to vote, but you'll still get a chuckle.)

That said, I think we Buddhists might be ultrasensitive to any comments about our religion/lifestyle/metaphysics because we get so little attention in the mainstream, even within the discussions of religion. I DO think that Buddhism, along with agnosticism and athiesm and the nonreligious, deserve more coverage in general in the media, since those demographic segments are growing. But that's a media issue in general.

Anyway, Carlin:
"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created."

--Tim, http://speakyourdreams.wordpress.com/