The Third Step: The Smoking Gun, Coughing Nails, a Real Red Herring, the Isometrics of Tobacco, and the Power of Nonsense.

Paul Undres, anti-hero and protagonist, once again espouses the world's ills. In Hi' Steppin' he is a crackhead who undoes the Veteran's Administration. In Lo' Steppin' he is the sex addict who loses his welfare check to an alluring underage girl. Finally, herein, The Third Step, he simply smokes himself to death after a few unusual operations. Take a deep breath while he is talked about by the gods above and below in a fierce battle with the thought monster. It is a fight to the finish. Everybody loses.