Kurt Vonnegut passes away at 84.

R.I.P. Mr. Vonnegut. Thanks for the great reads.

(Via Think Progress.)

Kurt Vonnegut passes away at 84.: ”

‘Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ ‘Cat’s Cradle’ and ‘God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater’ caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in Manhattan. He was 84.’

From a 2003 interview with In These Times:

I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka ‘Christians,’ and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or ‘PPs.’

Video of Vonnegut interviewed on the Daily Show is HERE.

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(Via Think Progress.)