Brilliant, intelligent, thought-out comedy/cultural critique/preaching.  Wonderful, important insights about the evils of the Bush Family and the rest of the Religious Right; the soul-destroying problems with our mass-consumerist culture that pretends to be progressive and intelligent and, dare I say it, even pretends to be art.  Hicks' time was far, far too short on this earth.  Hicks' words are relavent, important, and oh so well constructed.  What a great writer he was, as well as being an incredibly good speaker. This is not comedy, certainly not stand-up comedy in the way we usually think of it.  He was a man with a message, with a mission, a holy quest one could almost say, to try to wake people up to be see the world around them as it really is, not in the sugar-coated, censored, stripped-down, bland way the media and the government would have you believe. I must admit, I find much more in his words about how to live as a fully actualized human being, and as a member of a society - and what a good, true, just society would look like - than I hear from most preachers/Christian theologians I've come across.  Certainly much more than the lies and mistruths the government and our schools and our news sources feed us.  Buy yourself a Bill Hicks CD, and have your eyes opened, and your mind expanded.  Or, if you realize you don't like what he has to say, I think we can all agree that, at the least, Hicks is an incredible example of a man who had something to say, and followefd his heart and went ahead and said it and did what he had to do to get his message out.  We can all a lot about following our call from him, even if you don't like what he has to say.