Arbitration & Mediation

George Carlin - Funniest Footnote in Supreme Court History.

By Christopher Annunziata

One of the smartest, wittiest, funniest, and most insightful (inciteful?) comedians and, yes, philosophers of our time passed yesterday at age 71.   I guess that now that I am approaching 40, 71 seems far too young to die, especially in this day and age when they can cure such horrible, terrible, life threatening diseases such as restless legs syndrome and overactive bladders.

Carlin was a bastion of free speech, constantly pushing the envelope of what society thought “decent.”   Of course, his “Seven Dirty Words” routine resulted in a Supreme Court decision that gave the Federal Communication Commission the power to protect “the children” from “indecent” material.  It probably wasn’t the decision he would have preferred, but Carlin did say that he was “perversely kind of proud of” being a “footnote in American legal history.”

The world is a little less funny today.

Full post as published by CKA Mediation and Arbitration Services Blog on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).