George Carlin Crosses Out - 16 Years Later

May 12, 1937 — June 22, 2008

YES, YOU WERE A PROPHET, our long-haired bard, our poet with an out-fucking-standing command of the English language. A rare bird.

Carlin put on the line, always.

The Times called him "irreverent," in their obit headline. Patronizing. If we're going to call George a "rev" anything, it would be a revolutionary.

Carlin, born in 1937, was prescient. What he…