Collection of satirical essays on comedy and obscenity in politics and culture.;We have ways of making you laugh -- Who's to say what's obscene? -- Mort Sahl's best punch line -- Barbarian at the gate -- Fear and laughing in Las Vegas -- Don Imus meets Michael Richards -- The great Muhammad cartoon controversy -- The Disneyland memorial orgy -- The parts left out of Borat -- Getting high down under -- Harry Shearer hears voices -- The power of laughter -- The war on some people who use some drugs -- The ballad of Tommy Chong -- Barack Obama and the pot laws -- Bong hits 4 Jesus -- Was Moses tripping? -- Hookahs on parade -- Got vomit? -- How magic are your mushrooms? -- Under the counterculture -- Hippies on the Hitler channel -- Strange bedfellows among the yippies -- The parts left out of Chicago 10 -- The Grateful Dead play the pyramids -- Several dead icons -- Ginsberg's last laugh -- Robert Anton Wilson: keep the lasagna flying! -- Who the hell is Stew Albert? -- Kurt Vonnegut lives! -- Peter Stafford meets Tom Snyder -- Albert Ellis meets Lenny Bruce -- Norman Mailer's foreskin -- Mountain girl remembers Albert Hofmann -- Michael Rossman: a touch of sativa -- George Carlin has left the green room -- Freedom's just another word -- Exclusive interview with Michael Phelps -- There are no atheists in the White House -- Great moments in memory loss -- Trashing the right to read -- The thought police at work -- Donuts, coffee and weed -- Welcome to Camp Mogul -- Campaign in the ass -- Behind the infamous Twinkie defense -- The last election -- And God said, "Let there be FILF."