Markos from Daily Kos has a new gig writing opinion pieces for Newsweek, and he’s been in rare form with his first couple of efforts. From this week’s column: “In his first Inaugural Address, Ronald Reagan remarked that ‘government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.’ While the quip has provided […]
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Roundup: Flight of the Humpback Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
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Remembering Kurt Vonnegut: “A Rather Daft and Kind Old Man”
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 16th, 2007 at 6:09 am
Gregory Rodriguez has a piece in the LA Times today in which he remembers working as an editorial assistant for Kurt Vonnegut’s publisher, and getting to know Vonnegut as he worked on revising Hocus Pocus for publication.
Their first meeting, as Rodriguez recounts it, has Vonnegut displaying a vulnerability
that is at once charming and wrenchingly […]
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Kurt Vonnegut, Home at Last
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 12th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Kurt Vonnegut is dead.
Today the world is a little less kind than it was yesterday.
American literary idol Kurt Vonnegut, best known for such classic novels as “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle,” died on Tuesday night in Manhattan at age 84, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Longtime family friend, Morgan Entrekin, who reported Vonnegut’s death, said […]
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