A Friday, November 4, 2005, op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by HBO host Bill Maher begins as follows (emphasis mine): "President Bush's new Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, must bomb an abortion clinic." It gets ... worse. Four paragraphs later (emphasis mine): "Is Alito a decent man with Christian values? Until he kills a nurse with a pipe bomb, there's no way to be sure. Sometimes the only way to convince some people that you're truly pro-life is to kill a few of them. Like when a gang member has to knife some random guy to prove himself."...