So Kurt Vonnegut has passed. Last time I checked in on him he was still chain-smoking and flipping off all branches of government. He was in his mid 80s. We should all get to die with such dignity. So for what effort I could summon to write something deep and profound, it would be in vain. Vonnegut was the type of writer who polarized everyone. You either loathed him based on something you were force fed in school or you decided based on something you were force fed in school that he was worth getting to know.

If anything, I’m sure he’d like the world to know once and for all that famous “speech” he gave at MIT was not him at all.