YouTube threw this at me today, and I watched it, because it’s Carlin. I’ve heard all of it before (lots of it more than once), but I still hung on every word because even though he’s been dead for nearly 20 years and these bits are mostly much older than that, it’s astounding how relevant most of it is to our current times. Abortion, religion, business criminals, political criminals, war, eroding rights. The names may change, but the big picture problems never do. There are days when it feels like we’ve come a long way as a society, and then there are days when you watch something like this for 40 minutes and wonder have we really? I’ve seen a lot of progress in my lifetime, but what does it all mean if a band of evil, nakedly corrupt grifters with no regard for any of it can just come and take it away, laws be damned? It’s no fun to think of our rights as privileges, but if we don’t protect them, that’s exactly what they are.