I refuse to say he “passed away.” He would have hated that.
The world is just that much less honest, funny, and free today. Naturally, Carlin was an inspiration to me, and I hope that his material continues to influence young minds for all time.
Here is George on “soft language.”
Speaking of soft language, this is anything but. The routine that led us to FCC v. Pacifica.
And finally, George’s take on where he went once he died — certainly not to any afterlife!
No “rest in peace” here… just keep on doing what you’ve been doing, George. From all of us, thank you.
No, that was lame. Here’s what I have to say about George Carlin dying: Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker and Tits.
I don’t say “finally” as a sign of disrespect… au contraire. Any other man would have been dead decades ago. But you can’t kill Captain America.
Knievel was my childhood hero. He was the personality behind posters in my room and a lot of my toys. I went from my toy Evel Knievel motorcycle to the real thing as soon as possible. There was a bit of the Knievel inspiration in me when I made my first skydive… and when I made my last.
He was just freakin’ cooool. Even when he started up his little spat with Kanye West over a music video parody, I couldn’t bring up any bile for my old hero.
Appropriately enough, he passed away at age 69… days after making peace with Mr. West.
Do not rest in peace, Mr. Knievel, kick some ass over on the other side.
I saw this headline on Yahoo! news, Oddly, Hypocrisy Rooted in High Morals, and of course started to chuckle. As if I didn’t already know that usually those who purport to be the most “moral” are usually the slimiest eels in the pit.
In the new study, detailed in the November issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology, researchers find that when this line between right and wrong is ambiguous among people who think of themselves as having high moral standards, the do-gooders can become the worst of cheaters.
The thing I love about the blogosphere is that you can randomly stumble around and then actually run smack into something brilliant. I found this comment left by “KevinK”.
We are not a fearful people.
We are a nation that insisted in the face of strong opposition from its allies on formal legal trials for the war criminals of Nazi Germany. Providing lawyers for the accused with evidence documented and presented. These were not show trials. Some were acquitted. Some were sentenced to prison. Some were executed.
This was not a fearful country. This was a proud country unafraid of the light.
Fox News reports that David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands presented a theory that humans will begin having sex with robots within 5 years, and marry them by 2050.
Levy’s thesis, “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners,” predicts that robots “robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them.”(source)
“It may sound a little weird, but it isn’t,” Levy said. “Love and sex with robots are inevitable.”(source)
The article goes on to discuss Levy’s thesis that the reasons we fall in love with each other can all be programmed into artificial humans. Hmmm… that would certainly take a lot of the labor out of being single.
The article goes on to discuss the likelihood of sex-bots coming into their own:
In 2006, Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research Network, predicted that people will be having sex with robots within five years, and Levy thinks that’s quite likely. (source)
LodgeNet Entertainment Corp. supplies pay-per-view movies to America’s hotels, and “Focus on the Family” (FOF) says, “In August, family advocates will ask the Department of Justice to investigate and bring charges against the company.
Phil Burress, president and executive director of Ohio’s Citizens for Community Values (CCV), claims that LodgeNet’s movies are ” prosecutable under the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Miller v. California.”
The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists has named Marty Klein’s America’s War on Sex the “Sexuality Book of the Year”
Dr. Joy Davidson, who presented the award, called Klein’s work “frightening, funny, and a great read.” She underlined its achievement in presenting a clear picture of how the repression of various aspects of Americans’ sexuality—health care, education, entertainment, private expression, art, victimless crimes—is all related. The Theocratic Right, American government at all levels, and so-called “decency” groups are systematically undermining secular democracy as they work together to over-regulate sexuality.
Klein keeps a regular blog, Sexual Intelligence. I am a regular reader, and a big fan. Klein consistently and scientifically debunks the insanity that the erophobes try and cram down our throats in the culture wars.
Apparently four black teens were ejected from Downtown Disney for… wait for it…. loitering under Disney’s new “anti-gang, no-loitering policy.” Read here.
One also “made ‘kind of smart remarks’ to Disney security.” For this, they were detained, photographed and fingerprinted. The penalty for not respecting Walt’s authoritah? Banned for life from Disney property.
Seriously, how in the hell can you bust anyone for loitering in Downtown Disney? Isn’t that what the place is for?
Well, looks like the Fascist Mouse really stepped in it this time. While four black youths being harassed by bigoted peckerwoods isn’t anything rare, this time they just might get called on it. One of these “dangerous” youths who refused to respect Disney’s authoritah is the son of a civil rights lawyer.
That’s right. If Mickey wants to sing “Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta,” he had better make sure that the kids he is mistreating are actually powerless and poor. Oh no Pluto! One of their dad’s is a lawyer!
Nobody has organized a boycott yet… but I avoid that place anyhow. Talk about pre-packaged, shrink-wrapped, garbage culture. Disney is the kind of place that makes me wish that the movie Fight Club was real.
Interestingly enough, I was prowling around Disney’s corporate offices the other day, and found this document in a folder marked “Classified.”
Top Ten New Ideas for Disney World! (after the jump)
Trojan has a new ad campaign involving pigs with cellphones in a nightclub. Yeah, sounds like downtown Orlando to me. Anyhow, the ad sounds pretty clever. You can read about it here.
CBS and Fox rejected the ad because it promoted condoms as pregnancy barriers.
In a written response to Trojan Fox said that it had rejected the spot because, “Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy.” Source.
Ummm…. WTF?
“We always find it funny that you can use sex to sell jewelry and cars, but you can’t use sex to sell condoms,” said Carol Carrozza, vice president of marketing for Ansell Healthcare, which makes LifeStyles condoms. “When you’re marketing condoms, something even remotely suggestive gets an overly analytical eye when it’s going before networks’ review boards.”
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