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A list of supposed common sense 'rules' for dealing with hurricanes (primarily a political diatribe about the people who live in hurricane-prone areas) circulated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 was attributed at the time to both to comedian George Carlin and New Orleans blues musician Bill Boudreaux: The list was not the work of either man: Boudreaux's name came to be associated with the piece more than a week after it first appeared, and Carlin's was not attached to it until a few months later. Our first sighting of this item was on the alt.vacation.las-vegas USENET newsgroup, where it appeared in a 14 September 2005 post. Even at that early date the identity of the diatribe's author had been obscured, with the poster later disclaiming having written it himself in the discussion thread sparked by his offering. George Carlin specifically disclaimed authorship of Hurricane Rules on his web site and placed a link back to this very article. Similar humor-tinged political screeds (e.g., Paradox of Our Time, a 'things were better in the good old days' essay executed in the form of a comparison list, and I'm a Bad American, a point-form essay advancing the cause of intolerance, were falsely attributed to him as well. Up until the comedian's death in 2008, just about any unsourced list of witty observations about politics and social mores eventually became credited to George Carlin as it made its way around the internet. Carlin himself declared that such soapboxings should not be blamed on (i.e., attributed to) him: George Carlin offered this bit of wisdom at the time: Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it came from one of my albums, books, HBO shows, or appeared on my website.
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