Did you just hear Kurt Vonnegut on PBS?

[ret5hd]

Stating that, as a member of "The Greatest Generation", he is calling for the impeachment of the president?

He also called bush* a twit.

[stlsaxman]

1. uh, which show? n/t

[Xipe Totec]

3. Boston, Ch2 (show name is Now) n/t

[stlsaxman]

7. Figured it was on "NOW"...

thanks, "Washington Whores On Parade" just ended and NOW is up next!

thanks for the heads up!

[Xipe Totec]

2. Yes, he mentioned how low the bar is for impeachment

If oral sex is an impeachable offense....

[ret5hd]

4. and just quoted the bible...

blessed are the meek,
blessed are the peacemakers...etc

then said "That's not exactly the republican agenda, is it?"

[Pachamama]

11. "Blessed are the Peacemakers for they are God's Children"

I especially loved him saying that "Forgive the trespassers that trespass against us" - and he suggested that should be a placard on the wall of the White House as he chuckled....

I love Kurt Vonnegut....I look forward to reading this book he just wrote....

[FreedomAngel82]

20. Good!

I'm glad he did that! :bounce:

[Dudley_DUright]

5. Now is on at 8:30 ET for the Orlando PBS station

Looking forward to hearing his interview. :bounce:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Correct on both points. nt.

[stlsaxman]

8. Too bad it's Broncoccoi interviewing him...

what a waste.

Brnoncoccio is a putz.

[Bigmack]

9. Saw Kurt on "Daily Show"...

... he was there to shill his new book..... "Man Without a Country".
I've felt like that book title since late in 2000.

My wife got it for me as a birthday gift. Wonderful.

[RoyGBiv]

10. I love that man ...

I got to see him speak and shake his hand in OKC a couple years back. He is simply brilliant.

[Itchinjim]

12. Kurt has been a hero of mine since the seventh grade in '73...

when my older sister left a copy of "God Bless you Mr. Rosewater" at home after a Christmas break from collage. I was instantly hooked and devoured everything Kurt wrote up to that time in a matter of days. Kurt Vonnegut and the Greatful Dead got me through a rather rough and not very pleasant four years of Catholic High School. Kurt and Jerry changed my life. God Bless 'em both.

[nickgutierrez]

13. 10th grade, 1999, and "Slaughterhouse-Five" for me

Otherwise... almost the same story. :)

[NNadir]

15. I cannot believe that Slaughterhouse Five has not earned Vonnegut

the Nobel Prize.

"Listen," it says and then goes on to tell us about the bombing of Dresden.

It remains for me one of the most powerful and poetic books I have ever read.

[Crunchy Frog]

19. Summer between 10th and 11th grade, '79, Cat's Cradle.

It was assigned reading for over the summer. I instantly fell in love.

[Liberal In Texas]

14. Vonnegut is a national treasure. I'll say it again.

[mike_c]

16. agreed....

eom

[Liberal In Texas]

17. So many of his books hit me square in the face. He is so right on..

to coin a phrase from an earlier age.

Do you know...he was going to take a flight to see his son (I may have my facts kind of cock-eyed...bear with me...) and had a premonition that the plane would crash. He didn't take that plane, and it did crash, killing all aboard. It was a pretty famous crash, like a DC-10 in Chicago or something....can't remember exactly.

Weird.

[mike_c]

18. I heard him speak a decade or so ago...

...and I swear it must have been what listening to Mark Twain was like. He is so perceptive, so ascerbic, so spot on. He recognizes the assholes of the world, and shines a light on them.

[Liberal In Texas]

21. As my Brit wife would say, "You lucky sod."

I've met so many famous people over the years, but not Vonnegut. I would love to.

Believe it or not, I was not impressed with Carl Sagan. I was not impressed with "Paw" from "Bonanza" Lorne Greene.

I was impressed with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Garrison Keillor, Ann Rice, Richard Condon, Jim Stafford, George McGovern, Ed McMahon and others. (I know, blatant name-dropping.)

I have not had the pleasure of meeting Kurt Vonnegut. Boy would I like to.

[happydreams]

22. I saw that. Vonnegut

called them the Merchants of Death.