How disappointing that Len Lear was so rudely brushed off by George Carlin after agreeing to bring him the pot he asked for and confirming the meeting with his agent (“Dope, delays and disappointment: My George Carlin story,” Aug. 8).

Carlin was doing so many drugs and so much alcohol at the time, which he admitted later, and was overcommitted with his performance schedule, writing, producing records, etc. He even had his first signs of the heart problem your article mentioned back in the '70s.

George Carlin was provocative and irreverent. He saw through all the bull we are constantly faced with. He confronted censorship head on; saying he challenged the status quo is an understatement. If I may borrow from Al Gore, he presented us with “Inconvenient Truths.”

His “Hippy Dippy Weatherman” routines were hilarious, and his cutting through the irrationality and hypocrisy of religion was right on. He surely would have had something to say about Trump’s declaration that he is “God appointed” and about all the messianic gobbledygook surrounding his running for office. 

Carlin would have cut to the chase that Trump couldn’t care a hoot about religion, only about himself, and only uses and abuses religion to attract his evangelical base. I am happy that Lear forgave Carlin and concur that he was definitely one of a kind.

Judy Rubin

Mt. Airy