[gracie1]

The 60's and 70's were the golden age of Mad. The one principle was skewer everyone, the right or the left, big business, beauracracy, government, the self rightious, or the plain looney. The common man and his fight against the powers that be was Berg's running theme and I always loved his features. It was Mad that left me with a deep and abiding love of satire. Nowadays the magazine I loved has stooped to the level of shock value. Oh, well.

[macclim8ed]

Ditto here. A bunch of us were really tickled in high school literature class one day when our teacher called MAD magazine an "excellent example of satire." This from an ex-Marine, part-time football coach who'd spent his younger years in Catholic school.

When he was a young boy, my son, now 19 "appropriated" my issues of MAD when he was a young boy. Probably one of the reasons he still thinks his old mom is "cool" to this day.