Tom Cruise, Scientology and Me

Written by Paul Krassner on July 27, 2005. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Tom Cruise may consider himself educated about the negative aspects of psychiatry, but I suspect he doesn’t know jack shit about the dark side of Scientology, the source of that education. In 1971, I announced in an ad the features that would be included in the 13th-anniversary issue of The Realist. Among them,
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Woodstock 35 Years Later

Written by Paul Krassner on August 24, 2004. Posted in Posts

ON THIS 35TH anniversary of Woodstock, everyone who was there has their own specific memories and associations. The 60s were over. Negroes had become blacks. Girls had become women. Hippies had become freaks. Richard Alpert would become Ram Dass. Hugh Romney would become Wavy Gravy. San Francisco Oracle editor Allen Cohen would become Siddhartha
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Threatening the president is no joke, even when it is one.

Written by Paul Krassner on November 11, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

In a 1971 interview, Groucho Marx told Flash magazine, "I think the only hope this country has is Nixon’s assassination." Yet he was not subsequently arrested for threatening the life of a president. In view of the indictment against David Hilliard, chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, for using similar rhetoric, I wrote
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How the Realist popped America’s cherry.

Written by Paul Krassner on August 26, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

I was supposed to have everything ready for the printer the next morning. I was exhausted, but there were two final pieces to write. My bare buttocks stuck to the leather chair as I created an imaginary dialogue about clean and dirty bombs. Then I borrowed a form from Mad and composed "A Child’s Primer
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