Video: Wildfire victims getting what’s coming to them, says Carlin
posted at 6:33 pm on October 24, 2007 by Allahpundit
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No need for grandiose outrage here. He’s been saying stuff like this for decades. In fact it’s a core part of his act, which is why he’s allowed to skate. I offer the clip not as fodder for indignation but because it’s a nice little window into Carlin’s persona: the bitter hippie, broken-hearted by the failure of the 60s, whose idealism has since decayed into a cynicism so black and weary that revanchist, schadenfreudean sentiments like this now escape his lips without the slightest stutter. And of course it’s all paired with the most touchy feely, cringemaking New Age back-to-the-land nonsense about being “in balance with nature” the way the Indians are. Thus the paradox of the malignant self-styled humanist: We need to join hands and tap into the spiritual creatures within — and if we don’t, then he hopes your house burns down.
I’m giving you the clip of his interview with Olbermann too (he thinks “Countdown” is the best show evah, don’t you know) so you can better appreciate his nature boy affectation. He uses the “cell phone that makes pancakes” line, which is itself a recycling of his old line about “sneakers with lights in them,” in both clips so he’s obviously proud of it. And why wouldn’t he be? It’s both anti-materialist and nonconformist, the cardinal virtue in Carlin’s morality. Everyone’s a sheep, everyone’s a follower, blindly obeying the great They that keeps us all in line. All except him, of course. And that nutroots imagining of Edward R. Murrow sitting across the desk from him.
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I’m sure that initial statement also applies to all his little liberal jackass friends in Malibu no?
Defector01 on October 24, 2007 at 6:34 PM
carlin is actually a communist. he’s said as much not too long ago. he’s just at the natural end game of liberalism.
lorien1973 on October 24, 2007 at 6:36 PM
Bet he’s big on hunting then, like the Native Americans…..and skinning those animals, too. THAT is part of living in balance with nature, too, now isn’t it?
RW Wacko on October 24, 2007 at 6:37 PM
When did he escape the balcony on The Muppet Show?
trubble on October 24, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Carlin’s pimping his “stuff”.
*flick*
RushBaby on October 24, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Old comedians never die, they just get more and more desperate for attention.
MB4 on October 24, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Wow he got old. He looks like a mean version of the guy in Miracle on 34th St.
JiangxiDad on October 24, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Does this mean I should hold my breath until Olberdouche declares Carlin to be a “worst person in the world”?
Hollowpoint on October 24, 2007 at 6:43 PM
He always felt he should have been huger. But the fact is that he’s best known as Al, the hippy-dippy weatherman back in the late 60’s. Laying down allusions to Lenny Bruce doesn’t actually make you hip.
thegreatbeast on October 24, 2007 at 6:44 PM
Funny…Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter and now George Carlin. With age comes bitterness and resentment with liberals. Listen to Carlin in the 70’s. Liberal (yes), but funny because he wasn’t in your face, angry. Oh well, I still enjoy his stuff on my Ipod (pre 1982). Come to think of it, why would any of us care what a washed up comedian thinks anyway!!?
trader67 on October 24, 2007 at 6:51 PM
How about those Native American infant mortality rates? Or life expectancy?
Yeah, we’d all like to live the hard scrabble, desperate life of tribalist hunter-gatherers, George, but then we’d have no money to give do-nothing “comedians” who spend a career telling us what’s wrong with our self determined lives.
If we followed Carlin’s advice the only thing we’d be laughing at is his exile and subsequent starvation in the wilderness for being a “non-conformist”. How can people think this guy is a “thinking man’s comedian”?
The Apologist on October 24, 2007 at 6:52 PM
One of my favorite Carlin quotes…
Yep, he is one of those 80% of humans on the planet should just die kind of enviroooos.
ChrisM on October 24, 2007 at 6:53 PM
Hate to say it… but on the wild fire areas he is right.
I don’t believe that ANY of my tax dollars should be used to rebuild houses which burned down 20 years ago, in the same type of fire…
or houses that get nailed by hurricanes… or floods…
If you don’t have insurance… then thats your problem.. why is my tax dollar going to rebuild houses which will burn down agian in a few years?
Romeo13 on October 24, 2007 at 6:56 PM
Change the bong water dude. Hey, I can also reuse material when appropriate.
Thanks for the nihilistic Carlin quote, Chris M. Now don’t forget that the left is motivated by looove.
Kalapana on October 24, 2007 at 7:00 PM
If this sounds familiar, it might be because you heard a similar comment on the Don Imus show back when the O.J. Simpson case first captured our imagination. I remember I was driving to work and laughed as hard as I ever had at a radio comment, simply because of the total unexpectedness of it.
When asked by Imus what he thought the motive might have been for O.J. to murder his wife Nicole and Ron Goldman, Carlin replied. “Maybe they had it coming.”
rivlax on October 24, 2007 at 7:04 PM
Give it up ya ol Yippie, nobody gives a pizmud anymore.
Speakup on October 24, 2007 at 7:06 PM
I’m sure the Hopis and the Indians around San Diego had absolutely NO wildfires ever. *sarcasm*
Defector01 on October 24, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Yeah, nothing here regarding Carlin. He’s been a bitter man for many, many years — especially in the last 10 years since his wife died.
eanax on October 24, 2007 at 7:12 PM
How does Oblermann manage to work both sides like that. On the one hand he’s outraged by Falwell for caring about the sex life of a fictional character, on the other he’s essentially applauding Rowling for outing Dumbledore and decrying the backlash.
Speaking of which, is one blog post and two comments a conservative backlash? Did he not read the piece at Time titled “Put Dumbledore Back in the Closet.” I doubt the writer was a conservative.
John on October 24, 2007 at 7:13 PM
For me it’s a bit sad because he seems to have tried to substitute outrageous for wit.
Carlin, a long time ago, was FUNNY. I can still make syself laugh by remembering his “Al Sleet” character.
And then he started being political and stopped being funny. It’s a shame.
Blaise on October 24, 2007 at 7:19 PM
At 5:48 is that a swastika on the wall behind uberman?
peacenprosperity on October 24, 2007 at 7:23 PM
F*cking nihilist piece of shit. I got a neighborhood right here in San Diego he can visit. No overbuilding. No commercialism. Just people living like they did fifty years ago. Half of it is flat now from fire with no water running. Where the f*ck does Carlin live? How does he live? How does he travel? F*ck him.
And for the record, f*ck Barbara Boxer who came here to Qualcomm today and right on cue, blamed Bush and the war in Iraq.
Drum on October 24, 2007 at 7:25 PM
Well written, AP.
jaime on October 24, 2007 at 7:27 PM
Maybe she deserved it. No matter what kind of problem Carlin is facing, I always hope it gets worse.
jaime on October 24, 2007 at 7:29 PM
he’s right.
humans are part of nature.
and he is naturally trying to sound Deep and Wise, but he forgot that with wisdom comes a sense of humanity, a feeling for your fellow travelers, be they in mansions or in trailers…when a disaster strikes, you don’t rejoice from the comfort of a hollywood lit couch.
I can’t stand people like this, but I hope his home does not burn down, or his mud hut (melt in the rain?), whatever it may be.
bridgetown on October 24, 2007 at 7:32 PM
Oh, honestly, f*ck that rotten old misanthrope. What a horrid cancer of a man he is.
Kensington on October 24, 2007 at 7:37 PM
Good! I’m glad his wife is dead. There are too many people in the world as it is. His wife got what was coming to her by hanging on for too long and selfishly wanting to live and occupying too much space. She was out of balance with nature.
Kensington on October 24, 2007 at 7:41 PM
I’d like to have watched the second clip, but I literally can’t stand more than about 3 seconds of Olberman. He’s so arrogant, idiotic, crude, hateful, etc etc etc. I get the remote ready when watching Monday Night Football so I can change the channel whenever they show his face. (Who’s frickin brilliant idea was it to have the moron on a football show?)
I know I’ve somehow crossed into the left wing’s zone of emotional hysterics, but at least I don’t blog.
Nessuno on October 24, 2007 at 7:41 PM
LOL Kensington…..sick…oh, but funny..lol
bridgetown on October 24, 2007 at 7:42 PM
Speaking of the fires…anyone heard from doriangrey?
Bad Candy on October 24, 2007 at 7:45 PM
Jamie Lee Curtis stunned a women’s conference by telling them they live in a desert and too close to the brush. It was very Sam Kinison.
Karl on October 24, 2007 at 7:49 PM
Al Sleet, the hippy dippy weather man, in Baltimore it’s 6:42!
Blaise on October 24, 2007 at 7:19 PM – Good one!
What can you say about an aging Popsicle head and a wanttobe reporter. Can’t think of a thing.
Kini on October 24, 2007 at 8:05 PM
Well, I’m not sure I understand Jamie Lee Curtis’s point though I suspect she’s a flaming lib who can’t think straight.
No one here in San Diego is in shock; no one needs to be reminded that we live in a desert; and no one needs to be reminded of the relationship between nature and man and the connectedness of it all.
What many of the people here in San Diego are experiencing is devastation and loss — both of which, apparently, self-righteous commie Hollywood types can not or will not empathize with.
Drum on October 24, 2007 at 8:06 PM
Is he still alive??
JellyToast on October 24, 2007 at 8:12 PM
Well, he’s still emitting crap and other foulness, but there’s little brain activity and no apparent soul.
Kensington on October 24, 2007 at 8:19 PM
Basically.
eanax on October 24, 2007 at 8:21 PM
I don’t understand why the take here is that Carlin’s statement is socialistic or communistic. Perhaps he has imported the idea into a liberal framework with liberal vocabulary talking to a liberal audience…but the underlying idea here is the essentially concervative idea that people should take more responsibility and society should not subsidize unsustainable developments.
For a more articulate explanation of this, read the books by one of the only respectable MSM reporters, John Stosell.
http://www.amazon.com/Give-Me-Break-Hucksters-Media/dp/0060529156/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/105-3779288-3397229?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193271499&sr=8-2
Resolute on October 24, 2007 at 8:23 PM
Of course Carlin lives in a box on the sidewalk of a street was built in 1880.
Dusty on October 24, 2007 at 8:30 PM
AP. Based on your opening paragraph I see why Michelle hired you. Wow! You do know your way around the English language. Peace be upon you.
You’re dead on right about that old drunken fool Carlin too.
Mojave Mark on October 24, 2007 at 8:32 PM
Wow who knew Carlin was that nutty?
Dash on October 24, 2007 at 8:36 PM
Didn’t watch the clip, but there is one valid point. Man is living out of sync with nature, but that isn’t due to overbuilding, it’s in denying nature its’ natural course. We don’t allow the small fires, we don’t allow tree thinning, and we don’t allow the brush and scrub to be cleared out. Thanks to ENVIRONMENTALISTS!
If we allowed nature to run it’s course of natural thinning, or thin forests out ourselves, we would be spared, mostly, these huge conflagrations that destroy the entire ecosystem.
PS where does Carlin live? Even New York, if that is where he lives, used to be forest.
redshirt on October 24, 2007 at 8:38 PM
Aristophanes could pull it off.
Carlin just pulls it.
profitsbeard on October 24, 2007 at 8:43 PM
The problem is less with the idea that people have to take responsibility for what they do (or where they choose to live/build, etc.), it’s that he’s patently enjoying the nightmare. He can’t wait, he says, for rivers to rise and wash cities away.
The man’s a ghoul and a douche.
Kensington on October 24, 2007 at 8:48 PM
More than red meat, we’ve got red venison.
Griz on October 24, 2007 at 8:49 PM
[sarcasm]
I blame it on the Beach Boys. Damn them and their surf songs! They made California the ideal place to live, play and work.
[/sarcasm]
The bottom line is many people and companies moved to California for the climate. Don’t blame these fires on “climate change,” that’s ignorant. Blame it on the weather elsewhere… :)
eanax on October 24, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Always use the proper tool for the proper job.
- Handy Man
MB4 on October 24, 2007 at 8:57 PM
Can I just say that his third book sucked out loud?
ZK on October 24, 2007 at 9:04 PM
OK. The guy is tired, old and cranky. I kissed him off long ago.
I remember a comment he made about “women who are against abortion”, as being “women you wouldn’t want to f*** anyway”. I find great irony in that now, because I feel that way about women who would dispense with a baby.
I did see this from him recently that made me laugh. He slams “people who want to save the planet“, and nails it.
portlandbob on October 24, 2007 at 9:22 PM
Here’s what I don’t get about nihilists and enviro-nuts who hate live and humanity: why don’t they kill themselves? If mankind is evil and should be destroyed, shouldn’t they lead us by example? Join the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, maybe? C’mon, if you’re a cancer on the earth, use your twisted hands, with their mutant opposable thumbs, to apply some 9mm chemo to your abominably large cranium.
ticticboom on October 24, 2007 at 9:36 PM
No need to beat around the bush on this one: Carlin is evil.
Wishing death on his fellow man, his neighbors, trying to convert the audiance to his point of view through laughter. Satan never had a better protoge.
Sydney Carton on October 24, 2007 at 9:37 PM
A ghouche?
mikeyboss on October 24, 2007 at 10:19 PM
Yeah, absolutely. But they should let us know before they do it so we can enjoy the one less human not in sync with nature.
Carlin’s last HBO show consisted of a set made to look like a graveyard. Exactly. The guy is morally and spiritually dead. Of course, this type of being is perfect for Christian salvation. Here’s to praying.
Drum on October 24, 2007 at 10:25 PM
redshirt just hit the bullseye! Even the east coast allows controlled burning to thin the brush to prevent massive forest fires.
Why can’t the left coast learn from their mistakes? Because, unfortunately, there will always be someone else for them to blame that’s why.
El Guapo on October 24, 2007 at 11:24 PM
Speaking as a wildland firefighter, there are plenty of people who want to build in the forest, but want to do nothing to make their home defendable (no cleaning of grass/brush, no thinning of trees, woodpile up next to house or on deck, driveway is too skinny for fire truck to turn around in, but yet they expect firefighters to come in and risk their lives over a house where the owner would do nothing to make it less prone to burn.
And then we have Hollywood celebs who want to build a mansion up on a mountain, then demand (once the mansion is built) that nature and the environment must be preserved by ending development
firepilot on October 24, 2007 at 11:47 PM
Carlin hasn’t been funny in at least a decade. His humor turned to bitterness and lost any remnant of humor.
I was thinking of jumping on the SoCal/Overcrowding bandwagon, but then I realized, y’know, we have to live somewhere, and we keep on building metropolitan areas in places that flood, burn down, get hit by tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, and, well, just about everything.
Where is it okay to live and get hit by natural disasters and not be told by someone that it’s your fault for living there? Is there any such place in this country? On this planet?
Granted, I’m with people who say get the hell off the barrier islands, or rebuild it yourself. That’s why they call them BARRIER islands. But I’ve been to those barrier islands on vacation, and that makes me a hypocrite.
I’m just really happy that my cousins and their kids all made it through unharmed and without loss of property.
Meryl Yourish on October 25, 2007 at 12:19 AM
Heh, he did a show here in Arizona when I worked for ASU’s police department. I was working backstage (Gammage Auditorium) the night of his show and struck up a conversation with his manager. Nice enough guy, but I would say the opening act (can’t remember the comedian’s name) was much funnier (and much more cordial) than Carlin.
Carlin is (as AP stated) famous for being controversial, always has been and always will be. This became even more evident to me when his manager requested I escort George to the car (for security purposes) after the show as I’m certain they’ve had some issues after shows with people that failed to see the humor in his act, either that or he sucked so bad they were afraid they would be mobbed by people trying to get a refund! Kind of like the scene from “Strange Brew” when theater-goers cornered Bob and Doug McKenzie in the alley…classic movie!
Seriously, the guy that opened for Carlin was much funnier and he was a real down to earth person that didn’t treat me like a servant or lower life form (as how many celebrities I’ve met treat us “regular people” back stage) and we had a great conversation. George on the other hand didn’t even look my way let alone say a word to me while I was escorting him out to his waiting car.
Also, if there’s ever an Alec Baldwin post on HA I’ll share a run in I had with him when he was filming “The Getaway” at ASU with then wife Kim, lets just say I pissed him off and it’s a moment in my life I will cherish forevah, especially now that I know what a POS he really is!
Liberty or Death on October 25, 2007 at 12:48 AM
Well finally a Liberal has told the truth,yes Carlin
“The planet will take care of it itself”,and the fires
comment,when Behar says “thats a little harsh”,good lord
if a Republican said that it would be Katrina Part Deux.
canopfor on October 25, 2007 at 12:51 AM
I used to go to a forum with many “native americans” (half, one-third, etc. but most denied their caucasian side), and I have to say that these particular people were some of the most racist I have ever met. They hated “the Man” and were like Carlin, wishing death on people who weren’t like them (they were like the islamists with dhimmis…you could be their friend even if you were all white but you had to toe the line).
Sorry, George, and all you wannabe NDN’s, history will show you that the native americans didn’t all live in peace and harmony with each other and the land. Like all people everywhere, they had wars and polluted their environment.
Enough hair pulling, I used to laugh at Carlin but not today. That was also the first time I’ve ever seen Olbermann (sp?). Yawn. Sometimes it’s nice to live far away.
yggdrasil on October 25, 2007 at 5:24 AM
Carlin has a house out here thats in one of the fire zones, what a hypocrite. he used to be funny until he went all nutso.
ajmontana on October 25, 2007 at 7:50 AM
Jerry did not say Tinkie Winky was gay. An editor of a publication Jerry oversees claimed it indicated a gay lifestyle. But, these are people who can’t conceive truth when it slaps them upside the head.
On the flip side, like Carlin, when I talk about liberal hypocracy in my set, I use a sledge hammer. Not because I don’t like finesse. It’s because a rapier is for sissy boys. Real men use a sledge hammer. Unlike Carlin, I use a sledge because I like it.
He uses a sledge because his mind is so wasted by drugs that he can not handle anything more complicated than a simple swing of a sledge.
Sensei Ern on October 25, 2007 at 9:28 AM
Let’s set him on fire for the sake of him not being funny for decades, but refusing to shut up.
Old drug addicts like him need to bask in the silence of whatever dignity they have remaining.
Hening on October 25, 2007 at 9:50 AM
Well, Carlin, we keep trying to build a fence to keep the illegals out, but all you Communists keep insisting we let them in, so we have to overbuild.
What do you want us to do, you prick????
Miss_Anthrope on October 25, 2007 at 10:37 AM
Exactly!! I don’t know how many environmentalists I’ve pointed this out, but more than 2/3 respond really stupidly.
On the other hand, the animal rights nutcases get the picture. I may even have to reconsider calling them nutcases.
thuja on October 25, 2007 at 11:22 AM
I should define “really stupidly”. They say we just need to consume differently and everything will be ok. As far as I can tell from their incoherent responses, they fantasize us living in tents, riding bicycles, and eating berries. Winter?
thuja on October 25, 2007 at 11:26 AM
I saw him live at Michigan State in 1995. I was so excited to see him – I’d loved him as a teenager. This was my first chance to see a really big-name comic live.
It was beyond disappointing.
His opening act (who’s name I can’t remember) was awesome. Hilarious. My abs actually hurt the next day.
Carlin came on and did a 45-minute gig … and I’m not sure I laughed once. I’m not sure I even smiled. The whole thing was acerbic, acidic, bitter, cynical, stale, over-used, cliched … and completely unfunny.
Those tickets were expensive. More than a decade later, I’m still disappointed and pissed off. He was just horrible. And it wasn’t my politics, either – I wasn’t exactly the red-meat conservative then that I am now.
He just sucked.
Professor Blather on October 25, 2007 at 11:28 AM
Funny how the people who hate humanity and wish it dead manage to live the longest, pointless lives. If it was so noble to cease human existence why hasn’t he Euthanized hisself yet? Might just improve his attitude a little if he was dead.
Euthanasia is Patriotic!
Neo on October 25, 2007 at 11:35 AM
“At 5:48 is that a swastika on the wall behind uberman”
No, that is a “S” but with a name like Obermann you never know.
RobCon on October 25, 2007 at 1:37 PM
What is that thing on Carlin’s head? They tried to cover it over, but it’s still there. Is it the last bit of sanity and reason trying to flee his head?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 25, 2007 at 1:50 PM
I’m guessing that there are few areas on this whole planet that are not prone to one kind of disaster or another. Heck, I live in a place that seldom has thunderstorms, but I was hit by lightning inside my own kitchen. You just never know.
Bob's Kid on October 25, 2007 at 2:08 PM
You know, the thing about George is, I probably don’t agree with him on anything, but he has his own opinions, totally apart from traditional liberals or conservatives. At least he’s consistent. To paraphrase R. Lee Ermey, George has no bigotry. Everyone is equally worthless. He hates everyone, despises all. He’s a misanthrope. Which is cool, in a way. In fact, I’m quite certain the only human beings he likes are aborigines. He’s that hermit that in the 1800’s would go and live out in his hut and trap and fish and escape from society. He’s Thoreau with hostility. And I hate to admit it, but it’s kind of cool.
otcconan on October 25, 2007 at 3:10 PM
You know, oddly enough, Carlin and Ann Coulter were both Tonight Show guests on the same night last year, and Carlin was, if not polite, then at least marginally courteous toward her in a way that I never would have expected.
Indeed, I heard Ann comment about it on the radio a few days later, and she was remarkably appreciative of his basic decency toward her for those ten minutes or so. She, and I, both expected him to jump on her like a banshee, but he just didn’t.
Kensington on October 25, 2007 at 4:21 PM
News flash! George Carlin is very funny but he hates people and he hates himself. He hates. Comedians tend to be deeply depressed people.
RobCon on October 25, 2007 at 4:38 PM
You know I’ve always said that when you’re ready to be really serious about municipal planning, it’s time to get a drug-addled old comic involved.
landlines on October 25, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Honestly I think so. If you live in California you do what you can to prepare for Earthquakes and wildfires. If you live in Kansas you prepare for tornadoes. If you live in Florida you prepare for Hurricanes, New orleans floods. In new England you prepare for serious blizards about once a year.
When an earthquake hits Florida, a wildfire hits New England or a blizzard hits California then that is an unexpected disaster. When normal envionmental disasters get out of control in thier native regions that is mostly a man made problem. It is terrible for the people, but there is no point in denying it is a problem with society not with nature.
Howver twisted Carlin may be, I think that is essentially what he is pointing out.
Resolute on October 25, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Hey Professor, that’s the same Carlin show (in 1995) that I mentioned in a previous post that I worked back stage when he stopped at Gammage Auditorium in AZ.
I agree, the comedian that opened for him was hilarious and a really down to earth person, we had a great conversation after his opening when George went on. He was not at all like most of the celebrities I’ve met and dealt with when I would work safety/security back stage at Gammage. I too wish I could remember the comedian’s name as I would really like to catch his show again, he really did upstage Carlin in my opinion.
It’s not that I hate Carlin, he is what he is, he’s never pulled any punches, he’s for the most part not biased (he’s an equal opportunity hater) but his schtick is getting old and tired like him.
Liberty or Death on October 25, 2007 at 10:38 PM
Turns out Jamie Lee Curtis said it too. It must be a Hollywood thing were they have millions of dollars, spend millions of dollars, then turn around and complain when the little folks spend 100s of thousands. Power corrupts absolutely. I can because I’m special. You can’t because you’re ignorant, spoiled, red-necks.
Sultry Beauty on October 26, 2007 at 12:57 AM
I really used to think that George Carlin was hilarious and he was, until his anger and bitterness took over. Nothing he says surprises me anymore and he’s not really that funny – at least not the anger schtick. I agree with whoever it was who commented that they thought it was after his wife died that he became the angry bitter man we see today.
Sad.
kippras on October 26, 2007 at 2:00 AM
That wasn’t very nice, now was it, George?
Jewel on October 26, 2007 at 9:23 AM
Uh, I’m a comedian. I love life. I tend to love everything about it, especially the fact that most liberals are proved wrong, we just need to wait out the ignorance.
Unfortunately for th libs, it usually happens after they die, so they do not have the opportunity to realize how wrong they were.
Sensei Ern on October 26, 2007 at 9:51 AM
They cannot because as nihilists they do not believe in an afterlife. If they kill themselves they will be dead forever
‘Eat, drink, be merry for tomorrow you may die’ gives no more comfort than ‘Conserve, reduce and condemn the excesses of others’. It is all ultimately joyless
entagor on October 26, 2007 at 2:37 PM
Ugh!
Twenty years ago, I adored Carlin’s take on life. I’ve changed and he’s changed. Age is a terrible thing to endure.
historybot on October 26, 2007 at 11:46 PM
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