George Carlin dead at 71
From CTVNews:
LOS ANGELES -- George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday.
He was 71.
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Carlin's humour, while often intentionally crude, was often a sharp and accurate criticism of western civilization.
This morning Andrew Crystal, the morning talk show host at News 91.9, played a clip of Carlin's where the comedian spoke about politicians.
Carlin's point that everyone loves to complain about politicans and to say 'politicians suck' but they fail to realize that those politicians are the product of the public. In his words, (though you can simply replace Canadian with American) politicians come from American businesses, American universities, American churches... maybe it's the public who sucks.
As I ponder the latest fruits of our politicians labour in Ottawa - the Tory's restrictive copyright act and Dion's tax on everything* (*Carbon Tax) - I find Carlin's words of humour (perhaps wisdom) particularly insightful.
