"Vonnegut on "Shock and Awe"
Kurt Vonnegut's stirring address at Mark Twain house in Connecticut is a wry, sharp indictment of war and the Bush presidency."

Because we need more indictments of the war and Bush. There just has not been enough. So luckily this old (talented writer) and liberal has come to the rescue?


"I note that construction has stopped of a Mark Twain Museum here in Hartford -- behind the carriage house of the Mark Twain House at 351 Farmington Avenue.
Work persons have been sent home from that site because American "conservatives," as they call themselves, on Wall Street and at the head of so many of our corporations, have stolen a major fraction of our private savings, have ruined investors and employees by means of fraud and outright piracy."

Eeesh, that is poor, as if no "liberals" on Wall Street or in corporations are responsible for fraud and piracy? And where was the "liberal" administration for the last 8 years while all this went on? Shame on you Cory for posting such nonsense. I miss the "stirring" part of it. But hey it's your blog.

"And now, having installed themselves as our federal government, or taken control of it from outside, they have squandered our public treasury and then some. They have created a public debt of such appalling magnitude that our descendants, for whom we had such high hopes, will come into this world as poor as church mice."

Because Clinton was giving the money back to the people? Boo, hiss Mr.Kurt.

"What are the conservatives doing with all the money and power that used to belong to all of us? They are telling us to be absolutely terrified, and to run around in circles like chickens with their heads cut off. But they will save us. They are making us take off our shoes at airports. Can anybody here think of a more hilarious practical joke than that one"

Yeah, because the former "liberal" administration failed to upgrade our airport security in 8 years we lost 3,000 people in a matter of minutes. Great joke.

"Smile, America. You're on Candid Camera."

In similitude to Allen Funt who started out with a funny idea and then turned into a perv in his old age, Vonnegut had relevance in the McCarthy and Nixon era. Unfortunately, like most of the "liberal" whining "do-nothings" today, it is a pointless and outdated ideology. The world has changed, and partisan politics is just a way to divide the people of America, don't pander to either side of this nonsense. Be free.