George Carlin, American Radical

AlterNet by John Nichols | Jun. 24, 2008 (Other)

Carlin may have stopped voting in 1972. But America's most consistently savage social commentator for the best part of a half century, who has died at age 71, did not give up on politics. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Ann Wilmer - Jun 24, 2008 - 5:48 PM PDT
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 by Ann Wilmer - Jun. 24, 2008

It's an obit of a celebrity but one that had a keen insight into American culture and, one hopes, a lasting influence on it.

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