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7 Bad Ass Comedians -- Including Dave Chappelle, Richard Pryor, George Carlin -- Who Refused to Sell Out

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. February 16, 2011.

Seven funny folks have changed their lives for progressivism -- some on purpose, some not so much -- and made us laugh in the process.

Seven New Dirty Words for a Painful Point in Our Nation's History

Tula Conell, Firedoglake. July 25, 2008.

What are your seven dirty words?

George Carlin: A Funny Man in an Unfunny World

Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. June 26, 2008.

Carlin gave voice to dissident perspectives that have been almost entirely blocked from mainstream media.

George Carlin Can Burn In Feminist Hell

Echidne of the SnakesJune 24, 2008.

I think he's down there now, smiling up at us.

George Carlin, American Radical

John Nichols, TheNation.com. June 23, 2008.

No one, not Obama, not Hillary Clinton and certainly not John McCain, caught the zeitgeist of the vanishing American dream so well as Carlin.

In Memoriam: George Carlin

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. June 23, 2008.

A great comic, who used vulgarity as a bullhorn for truth, has died.

ABC News Suggests Eating Out of a Dumpster as Viable Alternative to \"Spending\"

MinistryofTruth, December 31, 1969.