Free Lenny Bruce!

The authors of the very interesting and worthwhile book, The Trials of Lenny Bruce, are trying to posthumously get everybody's favorite sick comic pardoned for his 1964 obscenity conviction in New York. To that end Ronald Collins and David Skover (with legal work being handled by well-known First Amendment lawyer Robert Corn-Revere) have started a petition that will be go to NY Gov. George Pataki.

An interesting side note: Lenny lost his appeal of this conviction because he foolishly acted as his own lawyer, an undertaking that puts him in some highly dubious but hoolariously entertaining company including Charles Manson, Mumia Abu Jamal, and Jack Kevorkian.