I just saw on the news today that George Carlin passed away. I always found Carlin’s observations to be spot on and enjoyed his work. I saw him a few years ago and you could see his hard lifestyle had taken its toll.
Rest in peace Mr. Carlin
Link: Carlin dies at 71
ADD: My friend Brad sent this out this morning, I thought it was fitting:
“When it comes to BullShit, truly major league BullShit, you have to stand back in awe of the truly heavyweight champion of false promises and exaggerated claims:
Religion. Organized religion.
It is no contest.
Religion easily has the best BullShit story of all time.
Religion has convinced people that there is an invisible man living in the sky, who watches everything you do for every minute of every day.
And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things that he doesn’t want you to do.
If you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place of burning and fire and smoke and anguish for you to live forever and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time.
But he loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
He always needs money.
He is all-powerful, all wise, all present, all knowing.He just can’t handle money.
Religion takes in billions and billions of dollars.
They pay no taxes.
But somehow they always need money.You talk about a good BullShit story…
If I may be permitted a small pun: Holy Shit!”
~ George Carlin
