April 25, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut would appreciate that he got his BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award posthumously. He's probably up in Tralfamadore right now with a grin on that craggy face that looked like an unmade bed.

Crossing so many genres, Vonnegut's fiction delighted multiple generations. Despite his wry cynicism about the human condition, he never gave up raging against the darkness.

In an interview in 2003, he opined, "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.'"

Oh yes, Kurt, we will miss you.

You nailed it on the head, and for that you deserve this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award.

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Nominted by Debbie Scally of Dallas, TX.

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