Despite your remaining communist labor sympathies, however, you seem to have recovered from the sentiments that mostly define Carlin: namely (as above) his contempt for Reagan/Bush/W. Bush; belief that conservatism is a philosophy of violence and hatred; his atheist take-downs of Christian faith; and his boisterous support for the murder of the unborn. Carlin was neither a doctrinaire Democrat nor Republican, but it is for me, personally, difficult to admire and praise a man who stood in staunch defiance of the values professed by those who gather in this forum.