Carlin’s last interview 20 Jun 2009 I’m a Macintosh a guy and so Spotlight helps me a lot. I just get on Spotlight and say, let’s see, if I say “asshole” and “minister,” I then can find what I want find. I knew I liked that guy… read the rest here. Humor
Evolution The World According to Genesis: Moral Knowledge 6 Jun 200724 Nov 2022 Like any middle eastern deity, YHWHW Elohim is a fairly petty individual. He doesn’t want competition from his creations, so he blocks access to the “Tree of Life”, which is a magical tree whose fruit can make you live forever. We have two magical trees, a corporeal deity of limited knowledge and good will, a snake that talks and has intentions like any trickster god to thwart the designs of the deity, and a justification for wearing clothes, which is not a matter just of shame, but of intended purpose. Read More
Administrative Happy Solar Festival 21 Dec 2009 So, I am moved from Sydney to Brisbane, but as yet have no internet at home. I must therefore steal some of my GF’s in order to wish you all a wonderful solstice for tomorrow, and sundry other religious and ethnic festivals that may fall on or about that date…. Read More
I must confess I’ve never heard of him before. Wonderful interview though and still going strong in what is a highly demanding job at 70. That’s love and dedication to you’re art.
Yes, thank you for posting this article. However, am I the only one who noticed how badly written this article is? Even the the excerpt you quoted (correctly) is badly written. Ironically, Jay Dixit says that Carlin said ” a rich area for my work [is] talking about how we talk. I wonder how Carlin would have felt about the expression “passed away “? I suspect Carlin would have used “died.”
I have the same problem Veronica with dyslexia. Many people do indeed view such things as a sign of stupidity and ignorance. I don’t know if the editor of psychology today is dyslexic but you seem to be suggesting it would be unacceptable if they were.
I’m having trouble deciphering your cryptic reply above. Do you mean that because the article is “a rough transcription of a verbal interview,” leaving out verbs and prepositions and spelling altar as “alter” is acceptable. Is this an acceptable way for “a Senior Editor at Psychology Today” to write? It appears as if Dixit is the “a ninth-grade dropout,” not Carlin.
Veronica, it’s an online rough draft – they guy even says so. If I saw it in that format in a publication I’d expect it to be polished, but I make worse typos (and surreptitiously correct them over subsequent days) on this blog all the time.
With all the interesting stuff said by Carlin what difference does it make that the interviewer isn’t writing perfect English? What’s more important, how the questions are written or the answers given?