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Who's to Say What's Obscene?
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Wednesday July 15, 2009 (7pm)
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Like the old judge's dictum about pornography, we know obscenity when we see it. But what we see is often blinkered by the cultural climate of the time (Duchamp's Fountain, once le scandale, is now literally a museum piece). Humorist, Daily Show and Onion contributor, and former '60s merry prankster Paul Krassner inveighs on the subject in the hilarious and irreverent essays of Who's to Say What's Obscene? From examining racism in comedy to pinpointing the impulse toward crassness in pop culture, Krassner writes about our society's uneasy love/hate relationship with all things foul and tasteless, using intelligence, wit, and more than the occasional four-letter word.
