If you're a fiction fan, check out Arkansan Charles Portis -- one of the funniest men writing in the English language. His most famous work is TRUE GRIT, but my personal fave is MASTERS OF ATLANTIS -- the most hilariously accurate novel ever written about cults and fringe movements. Portis understands the South and America in a way no other living author does.
I ask rhetorically - who are the REAL bigots. Oh, silly question, Maher is one. LOL