MrWiggly

nerds wet dream!!!

I figure since I get to see some gorgeous women here daily, that I can try and give back a little by makein you ladies laugh or smile or just call me names. Hopefully I don't make a fool of myself

I did'nt write this but it pretty much expresses how I feel. He will be missed.

You can't say those 7 words on television, and this morning at least one less person on earth is upset about it. I'm not the type to lament the loss of celebrities I don't know personally, but today is different: George Carlin died last night of heart failure at 71.

Beyond being uproariously funny, in possession of an unrivaled wit, and delectably surgical with the English language, Carlin's most generous, long-standing contribution to our culture may well be the humor-cloaked ferocity with which he reminded generations of what I think of as the duty of free speech. I think Carlin thought of free speech as much more than a de facto human right, like food, water and shelter, things that most Americans can simply take for granted. Free speech was something much different to Carlin, something that could be lost - forever. I think Carlin viewed free speech not as some kind of ambiguous ideal, but as an important muscle in the fabric of civilization that needed exercise. George Carlin was the Richard Simmons of free speech.

He wasn't without his detractors, obviously, and I confess that at times he said things that even made me, an adoring fan, cringe. But, looking past some of his more colorful material (which I think was included just so Carlin could appeal to as wide an audience as possible) you can see that the enduring legacy of Carlin's work is to distill intent from context - that elusive, yet critical leap every human makes to infer what was meant from what was said. Carlin challenged all of us to take that responsibility seriously.