The Keen Perspective of Kurt Vonnegut

Just as everyone over the age of 30 knows where they were when they learned that the World Trade Centers had been attacked, I know where I was and what I was doing when I heard that Kurt Vonnegut, one of my true heroes, had died.

What he said at left is one of the reasons for my reverence for the man.  He was one of the most insightful social critics who ever lived.