So George Carlin died this past weekend...He was a legend in the brick-backdropped comedy community...He will be memorialized from the Guffaw Hut in Providence, to the Giggle Cabin in Santa Monica. And truth be told, his baseball v. football riff was funny, but sadly, that was only one of his many other rants.
In reality, he was a hacky, cliched, caricature...Gallagher without the watermelons. He was in that tired tradition of: Religion is Evil! Big Business Runs America! People Who Try to Live Decent Lives and Raise Decent Kids are Suckers! All Republicans Kill and Eat Babies! Black Helicopters Saturate the Skies!
However, to many he was a so-called hero. A man willing to take on the "establishment," whatever that is...(and by the way, if Obama wins in November, and ALL houses of government are run by Liberal Democrats, is the "establishment" gonna be them, or will the out-of-power GOP still have all the power?)
Fact is, if you wanna be "brave" and "groundbreaking" today you may want to try speaking truth to the power of political correctness run wild, or the idea that all things are cured via "diversity," or that Man Made Global Warming may just be a crock of shit.
But fear not, gentle reader, we'll still have alleged heroes like George Carlin out there spewing retreaded old canards about the man and religion and how big biz really runs America...
Hey, maybe I'll just save this entry and re-post when Bill Maher, Richard Belzer, and Whoopi Goldberg die...That will be good for the environment, after all.
That is, unless Big Business forces me not to.
Enjoy this insight...I hope they buried him in his tinfoil hat:
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