I don;t think anyone has the "post 9-11" vantage yet. Bill Mahr is the closest I can think of, since his anger goes the deepest of his generation and is the best articulated of the bunch. He is the cross between Twain and Mencken and has an undying, unflagging hatred of the stupidity of those in power regardless of their ostensible political philosophy and the harm they create blindly pushing their expedient ends.What seperates him from the routine nihilist is his belief in social justice and an open society; this is marks him differently than , say, Larry Miller, a comedian I enjoyed until I heard him on Mahr's show basically declare that the terrorists are coming back to kill us again and that we'd better be prepared to kill them first. Mahr, in terms of the new realism, has a harder road as comedian; to express cynicism and outrage while being in favor of something. He certainly knows that being a critic without a articulatable alternative to the way things are is as inauthentic as a blues album by a boy band. He has the political intelligence Dennis Miller wishes he had.