Not really a fan of Maher, he can be funny and sarcastic, but not really into his thing. Basically, I see indifference to suffering as kind of all the rage and it has been for a while. Maher is just surfing the wave. 

Lots of odd twists and turns lately in how things are playing out. If the world we live in now was written as a novel people would read it and think "Who thinks up this kind of stupid shit?"