What's that small print on the flag? [See below]

"STARTLINGLY FUNNY ABOUT HORRENDOUS SUBJECTS" --
Alex Phelps, Hartland, Vermont [see REVIEW below]

"Please Rise Against OUR NATIONAL ANATHEMA" is the Panthers' third album (the first was on vinyl in 1982) and their most hard-edged. Loosely framed as a quarter-century tribute broadcast on Radio Free Vermont - a community station under bureaucratic siege by the Federal Communications Commission, the album presents Panther pieces written as early as 1979 and as recently as June 2004, but all with current relevance.

The Panthers are Vermont's oldest living comedy group, first working together in 1978. The following year they created their own show, The Panther Program, on Vermont Public Radio (VPR), which ran off and on through 1992, supported by grants from the Satellite Development Fund and (for eight years) the National Endowment for the Arts. During that time The Panther Program was honored more than any other VPR program, cited for excellence by