I recently gave a speech in Cleveland. I feel so safe there. The bi-partisanship of Neocons working in perfect harmony with the Christian Right has made this city so safe that Cleveland’s mayor is actually laying off police persons and fire fighters. There can only be one word for a community that secure: “Utopia.” So many American communities are now such… return to article
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Reader Comments (27)Page 1 of 1 pagesI hope Kurt makes it for another 81 years. He is an American treasure.
Posted by Clarence Fisher on Mar 27, 2004 at 1:01 AM Hey, some of those Cleveland cops that Kurt Vonnegut mentioned as being laid off have been hired for the Cincinnati police force. I guess the Cincinnati police needed to import help to kill more black men and create more bad publicity for the city, as if they haven’t already gotten the City of Cincinnati enough. C’est la vie.
Posted by Gary Cook on Mar 27, 2004 at 10:27 PM congratulations kurt!!! you are the 38747482nd person to make the bush, dick and colon joke!!!!!
Posted by steve on Mar 28, 2004 at 4:20 AM As usual, Mr. Vonnegut, your prose is witty, well-crafted and thought provoking. I wonder if Bush, Dick and Colon feel provoked. How about Rummy? How does one best provoke a tyrant? As for Brown & Williamson: A paragon of American Corporate virtue.
Posted by Michael Bufkin on Mar 28, 2004 at 6:07 AM I adore you, Kurt Vonnegut. I promise that when those Pall Malls due their job, I will be one to say, “Kurt is up in heaven, now.”
Posted by Danny Wheeler on Mar 29, 2004 at 9:02 PM Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author, and a true Indiana legend.
Posted by Shane Thompson on Mar 30, 2004 at 4:03 AM mr. vonnegut you are indeed the madman at the wheel. keep it coming.
Posted by Neil Docket on Mar 31, 2004 at 3:43 PM I am surprised that neither you nor Mr. Chomsky have been assasinated yet.
Posted by michael copple on Apr 1, 2004 at 12:03 AM Thank you ITT and Kurt ,We need hard truth with humor injected to find peace in our times and minds..I shared this posting on MSN in a leftwing site called “Bigdaddys” . I was told it was trash and was banned from the place ..I was going to a rightwing site and was verbally abused but never deleted or banned ...Needless to say I am politically confused at this point hahahaha…Kurt is a funny hero (the best kind) to me, and any elitist that cant handle him I dont have time for anyway… PEACE
Posted by Patango on Apr 1, 2004 at 1:42 AM What is the status of his newest book, “If God Were Alive Today”?
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Posted by Morris Einhorn on Apr 2, 2004 at 12:43 AM Mr. Vonnegut,
I forone would love to hear you expound on the concept of: “Where were those fighter planes on September 11?”
Posted by Dubya on Apr 2, 2004 at 7:39 AM Thanks, my perspective is that your talent is making readers feel sane for dealing with this messed-up thing we all love and hate.
May the Universe continue to bless itself - through You!!
Posted by Seth Hubert on Apr 3, 2004 at 3:55 AM I heard a comedian comment on the fact that only young children refer to their ages with numbers that end in, “and a half”. I guess this is one of the ways that the old revert back to childish habits!
Many more halves to you, Mr. Vonnegut. They’re better than halve-nots!
Posted by Jeff Martin on Apr 5, 2004 at 4:42 PM Montana Wildhack. Conjured up, literally, and in relative terms of slaughter, we get “Radical Protestant Millenarianism.” 1492…advertised as the year people began living full and imaginative lives in North America. In reality however, without the filter of nationalism and religion, we can clearly see that 1492 was instead, the year when radical protestant sea pirates armed with eschatology and superior weapons, began a four century crusade of genocide and cultural ridicule. Along with the Indian went the great herds of buffalo - all hacked into oblivion and regarded today, as a once fanciful notion of living in peace and harmony with nature.
Utopia or oblivion?: a Fullerism suggesting the outcome of which, decided by relay race (or, last straw, for all you “ladykiller’s”). And so it is that come November—this could be our last stand.
Posted by Tim Christopher on Apr 5, 2004 at 6:49 PM Will Rogers: “America is continually buying something it never gets, from a man that never had it.”
Posted by Tim Christopher on Apr 10, 2004 at 5:28 AM Michael Coppel,
You’re surprised both K.V. and Noam haven’t been assassinated yet? Are you meaning because of their bold honesty or because you’d like to see them both succumb to that fate?Just wondering.
Posted by Ammonia D on May 30, 2004 at 11:54 PM Kurt, write me another one. One by one I adore these more and more as they are delivered. I owe you one.
Posted by Jim Pedigo on Jul 1, 2004 at 3:19 PM Thank you, thank you, thank you Mr Vonnegut. You provide a whisper of sanity in a shouting mad world. You are a national treasure and I will always be in your debt.
If any other readers of In These Times have yet to discover “Sirens Of Titan”, “Slapstick”, “Cat’s Cradle”, “Fates Worse Than Death”, “God Bless You Mr. Rosewater” or any of his other books do yourself a favor and run to a library.
Posted by Jeff McKenzie on Aug 12, 2004 at 3:12 PM Kurt Vonnegut for President.
Arnold for vice-president.
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