Interview with Kurt Vonnegut

[microbe]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/index.shtml

Click on "listen to the latest edition" to hear a half hour interview with Kurt Vonnegut. Lasts for a week from today. Best to fast forward a minute to get to the start of the interview.

[Lightning Rod]

thanks for the link, microbe

it was good to hear the old man's voice

[stilltrucking]

I fell asleep last night listening to the BBC World service overnight, I do that a lot. Not sure if it the interview or a interview about the interview. Going to check out the link, the bit I heard just before drifting off to sleep was about people who are born without a conscience. The BBC guy asked him are you calling Bush a psychopath and he said yes.

Not to change the subject but you and I seem to be the only ones here who are curious about the timing of the Muslim Cartoons.

[microbe]

Yes, I noticed no one else seems to be bothered by that. You asked "why" plenty of times but no takers. The Danish Imams have a lot to answer for.

[stilltrucking]

Almost as much as some of the so-called religious leaders in the United States have to answer for.

I misunderstood your question.

I got a bad streak of jingoism in me. Too many John Wayne movies when I was a kid. I better get over it.

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5165342

Out of respect for his past writing career, though, I will refrain from cutting him up with a razor here. There were some signs in his interview that he hasn't drunk deep of the ID kool-ade, but overall it was a sadly muddled exercise in sloppy reasoning, spoken without the sharpness and clarity I've expected from Vonnegut.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006 ... t_goes.php