George Carlin died yesterday after a history of heart trouble. He was an in-your-face and often out-and-out obnoxious and irritating crank who didn't believe in God or voting -- and yet we miss him already, A lot of pundits were saying last week they couldn't imagine a 2008 election without Tim Russert, but by the end of this farce the real void will be probably someone like Carlin who would have told us all the whole thing was a crock.
Carlin did have one noteworthy spiritual belief -- do you think his soul is stuck on a roof somewhere this morning?
Here's Carlin's highly politically incorrect riff on not voting (warning: contains some of the 7 dirty words, of course.)