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...black holes is highly unlikely, Wagner and Sancho do raise the serious question of how much chance is acceptable when it comes to destroying the earth. At some point—not necessarily this point—experimenting with powerful force in biology or physics can become reckless. Kurt Vonnegut, in his novel Cat’s Cradle, which is about the destruction of the Earth by a substance called ice-nine, asks, “What hope can there be for mankind when there are such men…to give such playthings as ice-nine to such short...
...environmentalism.The book is a deceptively easy read—you can fly right through it without catching half of Handey’s clever satirical insights. With its scattered structure of short pieces connected by repeated references to everyday characters with absurd imaginations, the book reads like a Kurt Vonnegut novel. Handey’s narrator appears to be a middle-aged man with a penchant for his own “funny cowboy dance.” But the individual sketches are very much units unto themselves, preventing the book from having the virtuosic scope and insight...
...Legacies of Those We Lost Your farewell section [Dec. 31, 2007 - Jan. 7, 2008] was a touching way to end the year. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut left us with wonderful literature, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills left us with the magic of music, and Anna Nicole Smith left us with ... what exactly? She might have been a so-called notable personality, but only because the media swarmed around her, waiting for her to do more and more ridiculous things. She became a bigger-than-life caricature of herself, a real-life burlesque act because of the media. She should...
...Legacies of Those We Lost Your farewell section was a touching way to end the year [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut left us with wonderful literature, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills left us with the magic of music, and Anna Nicole Smith left us with ... what exactly? She might have been a celebrity, but only because the media swarmed around her, waiting for her to do more and more ridiculous things. She should be pitied, not honored. Ray Schwartz, New York City...
...think the Lampoon guys figured, ‘How can we get free ice cream?’” said his partner Jerry Greenfield, speculating on the reason for their invitation. The Lampoon regularly inducts celebrities and counts Jay Leno, Kurt Vonnegut, and Aerosmith among its members, according to Justin G. Hurwitz ‘07-’08, a Lampoon member and one of the event organizers. Some attendees were wary of the Lampoon’s intentions, suspecting a prank, but chose to investigate the situation for themselves. “My theory was that...