Vonnegut's Apocalypse
Douglas Brinkley at Rolling Stone - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., the Author of Cat's Cradle and other roaring stories and essays, has decided that between irreversible global warming and unstoppable oil shortages, the end of the world is nigh. [root]
"I've been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was twelve or fourteen. So I'm going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them. And do you know why?" "Lung cancer?" I offer.
"No. No. Because I'm eighty-three years old. The lying bastards! On the package Brown & Williamson promised to kill me. Instead, their cigarettes didn't work. Now I'm forced to suffer leaders with names like Bush and Dick and, up until recently, 'Colon.'"....
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