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“The FBI was right; this man is dangerous—and funny, and necessary.”—George Carlin

“Thanks to Paul Krassner for continuing to be the lobster claw in the tuna casserole of modern America.”—Tom Robbins

“Krassner has the uncanny ability to alter your perceptions permanently.”—Los Angeles Times

“I told Krassner one time that his writings made me hopeful. He found this an odd compliment to offer a satirist. I explained that he made supposedly serious matters seem ridiculous, and that this inspired many of his readers to decide for themselves what was ridiculous and what was not. Knowing that there were people doing that, better late than never, made me optimistic.”—Kurt Vonnegut

Counterculture legend Paul Krassner gazes on the fires of pop culture, politics, and celebrity and returns unscathed to help us make sense of our senseless world, with an introduction by Lewis Black (The Daily Show) and a foreword by Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Le Show).

From cults to pornography, from Charles Manson to Homer Simpson, from the war on drugs to the invasion of Iraq, from Dolly Parton to Lenny Bruce, from circumcision to propaganda, this collection epitomizes Krassner’s credo, “Irreverence is our only sacred cow.”

Paul Krassner is the only person in the world ever to win awards from both Playboy (for satire) and the Feminist Party Media Workshop (for journalism), to be inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, to receive an ACLU Uppie (Upton Sinclair) Award for dedication to freedom of expression, and to be described by the FBI as “a raving, unconfined nut.”