I’m amazed, I actually agree with Bill Maher for once.

I never did like Bill Maher. His opinions are based on his own bias on the topic at hand and very rarely is he ever right about anything. He rants as if he is some all knowing expert in all fields. What exactly makes him qualified to comment on anything? I personally use Circuit City and Blockbuster. I find the salesman at Circuit City to be better than the ones over at Best Buy. Yes they both aren’t the greatest but they are the lesser of the two evils I feel. Also I have a pass at Blockbuster because, firstly they are within 2mi of my home, the pass is a very good deal for me, and they have just about any titles I really want to watch. I find Blockbuster to be very well managed around where I live and will continue to buisness with them until I find a good reason not too. Maybe Maher should stop trying to speak for the entire American public as if we asked him too.

No I’m sorry, Maher is right, both these places suck.

Blockbuster tries really hard, but things just haven’t been going their way. And they recognize that their core business is doomed in the long term, and are working on their own digital delivery services, so they have that going for them.

From a retail perspective, their stores around here look good and are well stocked.  The local stores for competing Canadian national chain Rogers Video, who face all the same challenges as Blockbuster started looking really sad and unmanaged in the past year.

If Bill Maher was actually funny and not a bigot he’d be Dennis Miller.  There’s a reason he wound up on HBO instead of real TV.