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"RIP George Carlin. It was wonderful having you around," I tweeted, when I got the sad news. But, the man himself wouldn't have believed in rest, much less in heaven or hell. He being an atheist and all. "Yo worms, here I come," he probably said.

I haven't seen or read as much of Carlin as I would like to. The first that I saw of him was in a clip about atheism from the stage show-'You are all deceased'(Transcript). He has been going on about that long before Dawkins & Co. came out, so to speak. This clip became a sleeper hit on the LAN, inspiring more downloads. Those were the times when Jenna Jameson lost the LAN popularity race.

So incisive was the speech that I know of agnostics who tip-toed onto our side. Though some devouts merely felt around for their popped eyeballs, clicked it back on and left, humming the 'Gayatri Mantra', some were moved. They cried with an abandon that comes with revelation. Like my uncle's old friend, who wept incontrollably after taking a swig for a first time at his retirement party. "Why didn't I try this before? Hic! Mary is bloody brilliant. Sob," he said, wiping his cheek.

Carlin was not just about rebuking religion and everyone around. It was social commentary, at its best. Inspite of his bad tongue and godlessness, which is viewed with tremedous distrust in America, he inspired a whole bunch of comics(Jerry Seinfeld remembers).

As Joe Pesci picks him up and flies away to, er, wherever he flies away to, it would probably be appropriate to leave you with one of his jokes. A gay one at that, given the latest fad of having pride parades in India.

Catholics are against abortions.
Catholics are against homosexuals.
But, I can't think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals! -- George Carlin

P.S. Here's the last interview Carlin gave if anyone is interested.