After all that trouble I went to last night writing a fairly lengthy post about the late anti-Establishment comic George Carlin and his Supreme Court-baiting Seven Forbidden Words, I actually committed a hideous typo and missed one out. I know this because I received a text message this afternoon from my pal, the macaroon-chomping Friend [...]
George Carlin was part of a very fine and very respectable American tradition – that of the painfully funny and dangerously smart freethinking foul-mouth. Many of my heroes belonged to this tradition, and it seems like most of them are now dead. Comics like Carlin and Bill Hicks – and writers like Robert Anton Wilson [...]