Day: July 25, 2019

Let us take a moment to remember the late great Paul Krassner, who died earlier this week at the age of 87. Krassner played Carnegie Hall at age 6 (the youngest ever), found a mentor in Lenny Bruce, founded the first real counterculture magazine in The Realist, and founded the Yippie movement in the 1960s, which ran a pig for president and most imfamously clashed with police in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Born April 9, 1932, in Brooklyn, the young Krassner was a child prodigy on the violin, playing Carnegie Hall in January 1939. But after...