Review by John C. Snider © 2009
Underground comics and counterculture icon Robert Crumb is widely praised as a brilliant satirist and is one of the most recognized pop artists of the 20th century. The seminal–and often misunderstood–creator of such characters as Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat and Devil Girl has also been called sick, perverted, racist and misogynistic.
So who better than to illustrate the Book of Genesis? After all, Richard Dawkins once infamously described the Old Testament God as a “misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” Crumb’s got nuttin’ on YHWH.
David gives us a report on Bill Maher’s stand-up tour; specifically, Maher’s recent appearance at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.
We interview Robert Wright, author of 
Magic mushrooms and he were familiar friends
Thursday, August 13th, 2009I love this guy. He’s Michael Tenneral, a retired British teacher of Greek and Latin who’s been fairly active on YouTube for a couple of years. His curmudgeonly (but nonetheless charming) personality really pops through the computer screen, as he kvetches about everything from UK Creationism to the mismanagement of the upcoming London Olympics to how to pour “a good knock-out dose of gin and tonic.”
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