the_goren_show

I love George Carlin. The man seems to see the world in a way that makes sense. I present to you then these nuggets of wisdom from George.
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I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than a sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna to be all right.

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Does this ever happen to you? You're driving through heavy downtown traffic, block to block, street to street. Busy area. People hurryin' home at five o'clock. Maybe it's winter, and it's already dark, raining a little bit. You got the window open, and you can hear the rain and the traffic noise. People honkin' at each other. Got the radio on. Got the windshield wipers going. Everything's happening all at once: radio, rain, wipers, horns, traffic -- lots of noise. And you're just trying to get across town to run an errand. And then, after all kinds of hassles, you get over there and park the car, turn off the key, go inside, and take care of business. And then when you come back out to the car and turn on the key, THE GODDAMN RADIO IS THIS LOUD!!!

And you sit there, stunned, thinking to yourself, "Could I . . . possibly . . . have been . . . listening to that?"

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People no longer have problems in this country, they have issues. This shift grows out of our increasingly desperate need to shade the truth and see things as more positive than they really are. Problems sound negative and ordinary; issues sound important and worthy of attention.

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My muse likes George Carlin too.