Midlife Musings

A blog by John W. Kennedy

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Accolades for Vulgarity?

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Many in Hollywood and the media spent last week eulogizing George Carlin as a great national figure. They attached such phrases as “counterculture icon” and “First Amendment trailblazer” to Carlin, who died of a heart attack at 71. But many others will remember him merely as a foul-mouthed comedian who accelerated the path of vulgarity […]