...And how can you forget "The Masochism Tango?" or the only recently released "I got it from Alice"?

If you can stand another link, here's a fairly recent interview with Tom Lehrer (from 1997? '98?) from the onion.com, a satirical online paper in its own right:

http://avclub.theonion.com/avclub3619/avfeature_3619.html

As to whether Lehrer is now a raging conservative, I think his attitude can be summed up from a somewhat lengthy quote he gave in the above interview regarding political correctness, and its danger to the left and right:

"People on both sides take the other side very seriously. There are people who get really mad if they say "fuck" on the television, or they won't let you say it, or something like that. It's just minor when you look at what's going on in the world. So I don't know which is worse. I doubt there's any danger there. The people get very upset on either side when somebody attempts... People claim First Amendment and all that. But I don't think these are really important issues as long as there's poverty and hunger and a lack of education and people dying and children starving. This is important, not political correctness. I tell people, "I'll call you women instead of girls, just so long as I get paid more than you do." That's the issue, not all that PC stuff."

I think he says it all. I love a man who is so serious about his ridiculousness...

-Jigger