One thing which is in seriously short supply today is an extreme liberal satirist to balance off the clown "entertainers" of the right-wing talk radio monopoly. It would take someone who combines the political wit of Mort Sahl with the in-your-face delivery of Lenny Bruce, and who can also toss a bit of the poet Jack Kerouac into the mix.

You thus begin to describe Jello Biafra, frontman of the Dead Kennedys, now touring on his own as a stand-up commentator, delivering his political J'accuse against the would-be Emperor of the Energy World, George W. Bush.

Listening to In The Grip of Official Treason is not for the faint-of-heart, for Biafra pulls no punches. Would Kansans really watch The Simple Life Goes To Gaza rather than seek out information intended to educate them about what is really going on behind the Potemkin Village that is the Bush regime? Biafra thinks so!

This three-CD compilation isn't mindless entertainment, but is, instead, an attempt to break through to "the Red State Borg ... the militantly stupid" who readily consume the "news" cluster bombs dropped on the American people by our corporatized media, an action taken in order to prevent us from having enough mental acuity to focus on solving the numerous problems facing our nation today.

No one and no thing escapes Biafra's righteous wrath. Not either major political party, not the media, not any elected official, nor the "Hummerheads" who "ought to be the first to be drafted to fight for oil". Because no one and no thing escapes, there is much to cover, and Biafra does his best to do so on only three CDs.

Who else would ask if spending $50 billion a year to protect the $19 billion of oil delivered to us annually from the Persian Gulf, an amount equal only to about 10-20% of our yearly consumption, is really worth the cost? Who else would point out that it would be cheaper to buy all the drugs in Afghanistan or Colombia than it is to conduct the War Against Drugs (WAD) in either nation? There would be an additional benefit to such an approach: "Burn the [purchased] drugs... which would keep them from being dumped on American streets and killing my friends!"

The closest Biafra comes to entertaining is when he adopts Kerouac's style while delivering "Die For Oil, Sucker", asking "Which would you rather sacrifice? Your road hog or your life? Die For Oil, Sucker!", a delivery he again utilizes in "The Last Big Gulp" after a long setup presentation of historical facts behind the evolution of The War On Terror (TWOT) as we now know it.