Oh, no! That New Yorker cover is going to ruin everything for Obama. This is the tipping point. Now he'll never get elected. I'm so disappointed. I had such great hopes. What can I do? Cancel my subscription to the First Amendment?

Fear. It's all about fear. I've always been...

Hi, my name is Paul. I'm a barista at Starbucks -- or I should say that I was a barista -- but I still feel that I am one, even though I've been given my walking papers, my pink slip, whatever you want to call it, I've been fired from...

In December 1962, when Lenny Bruce was arrested for obscenity at the Gate of Horn in Chicago, the police broke open his candy bars, looking for dope. They checked the IDs of audience members, including George Carlin, who told the cops, "I don't believe in IDs." Then they arrested him...

I was slightly stunned at the irony of this paragraph in your endorsement of Barack Obama:

"Finally, I want to say a word about the basic decency I have seen in Mr. Obama. Mrs. Clinton continues to throw the Rev. Wright up in his face as part of her mission...

Now that there's a commemorative stamp honoring Ruben Salazar, it's appropriate to recall the context in which he was killed.

No wonder conspiracy researcher Mae Brussell was so excited. The attempted burglary of Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in June 1972 had suddenly brought her eight-and-a-half years of dedicated...

Progressive sex author Susie Bright had some questions for me:

Q. Paul, what's the story of the first "dirty picture" you ever saw?

A. When I was 11 or 12, my older brother, George, had somehow obtained nude photos of movie stars, like Rita Hayworth and Burt Lancaster.

"What are...

In 1960, the U.S. State Department was financing counterrevolutionary broadcasts to Cuba from a radio station on Swan Island in Honduras. Program content ranged from telling Cubans that their children would be taken away to warning them that a Russian drug was being added to their food and milk which...

A recent obituary in the Los Angeles Times began: "Bernie Boston, the photojournalist who captured the iconic image of a young Vietnam War protester placing a flower in the barrel of a rifle held by a National Guardsman died...The photo known as 'Flower Power' became Boston's signature image and...

[A small independent publisher, Ronin, has just released a new edition of my tale of a Japanese-American man who goes to a summer camp for gurus. Below is my preface to the book.]

In 1971, after reading Ed Sanders' book about the Charles Manson mini-cult massacre, "The Family," I began...

With the New Hampshire primary fast approaching, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has tried to posture himself as the standard bearer of much of George Bush's foreign policy. He suggested that "We are doing God's work now, in my opinion, by keeping al Qaeda and Hezbollah from establishing a safe...

A few years ago, in my last album, right after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, I talked about how furious Senators and congressmen were, looking at such photos as a prisoner forced to wear women's panties on his head and a naked prisoner with a dog collar attached to a...

We have a Republican candidate for president, Mitt Romney, who wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Yet, in 1994, when he was running for the Senate, he came out in favor of choice for women. He admitted to Mormon feminist Judith Dushku that "the Brethren" in Salt Lake City told...

This is a mini-interview with Ken Goffman (a.k.a. R.U. Sirius), co-author of Counterculture Through the Ages.

Q. How would you compare the counterculture of the '60s with today's?

A. In the 1960s, there were three television channels, newspapers and magazines, pop radio. People got their messages from very few sources....

Inspired ironically enough by a right-wing comic strip, Prickly City -- a talking dog complains to publisher Arianna Huffington, "Let me get this straight. Advertisers pay you for Huffington Post, but you don't give any of us bloggers a single penny?" -- the newly formed Bloggers Ego Guild (BEG)...

The following correspondence relates to my previous blog titled "Don Imus Meets Michael Richards."

Dear Mr. Krassner:

I congratulate you on writing an interesting piece.  However, your article contains the following quote:  "[Michael] Richards' lawyer, Douglas Mirell, said that while Richards' comments were 'inappropriate, they are not legally actionable' and...

It's Tim Russert. The moment he said to Dennis Kucinich at a "debate" among Democratic presidential candidates, "This is a serious question," you knew it wouldn't be. A responsible journalist might have asked, "Why do think that Dick Cheney should be impeached rather than George Bush?" But Russert wanted to...

Although the leadership of the Yippies (Youth International Party) in 1968 was virtually all white, Jerome Washington became the first black Yippie organizer. We had bonded at the Pentagon demonstration when we were both pissing on a wall of the Justice Building and were suddenly blinded by tear gas and...

Read more tributes to Norman Mailer on HuffPost here.

When Norman Mailer wrote his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, he used a euphemism--"fug"--for fuck. The first time I encountered Mailer, I asked him if it was true that when he met actress Tallulah Bankhead, she said, "So...

Note: There have been several inquiries about what happened to my "Assholes of the Week" feature. I've been obsessed with putting together a collection of my columns and articles over the past few years, We Have Ways of Making You Laugh, and am currently in the final throes. Following is...