ica [Editor] Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture Patty Hearst and the Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials The Realist Cartoons [Editor] About the Author HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015035 --- PAGE BREAK --- Paul Krassner published 7he Realist (1958-2001), but when People mag

d remain the same.” --George Carlin “Paul Krassner--confidant of Lenny Bruce, co-founder of the Yippies, defiler of Disney characters, publisher of The Realist, and investigative satirist extraordinaire. As soon as we decided to create the Huffington Post, | knew I wanted him involved. His irreverence was ju

mpliments.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015389 --- PAGE BREAK --- Remembering Dick Gregory | first met Dick Gregory when he asked me to interview him for 7he Realist in New York. | saw him again when | was in Chicago. He was performing at the Playboy Club and invited me to his show. Two years previously, Negro com

n delivered with a mordant, knowing skepticism, is as current as John Oliver and as omnipresent as the entire internet. But you don’t hear much about The Realist these days — it’s the fate of truly seminal sources to seem inevitable, when in fact they reshaped the world in their own image. Fortunately, in 200

ved to San Fran- cisco [in 1971]. By that time there were others doing referrals -- Protestant min- isters. So, I left my practice behind me. EP: The Realist was one of the first, if not the first, news sources to talk about Enovid [the first birth control pill]. PK: In the first few issues! And the pill

in mid-word: "Conspiracy to interfere with the 4th Amendment const" ...constitutes what, I wondered. Lenny was a subscriber to my satirical magazine, The Realist, and in 1959 we met for the first time at the funky Hotel America in Times Square. He was amazed that I got away with publishing those profane words

y pin was still attached on his jacket. JULES SIEGEL Two years before Lenny's death, with his permission I published his obituary in my own magazine, The Realist. Before the issue went to press, he called his mother and a few others to let them know it would only be a hoax. The point was that he couldn't get w

said to a close friend, James Drougas, "Trump will be assassinated soon." "Professor" Corey also had a humanitarian streak. In 1996, in my magazine, The Realist, I published a photo of him, from a video by his son Richard, presenting Fidel Castro a bag of California-grown pistachio nuts (Castro said, "Califor