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Afghanistan, "So It Goes"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Obama's Afghanistan Speech, Kurt Vonnegut, Afghan War, President Barack Obama, Lydnon Johnson, Karzai, Vietnamization, Surge, Ptsd, Tet Offensive, Afghanistan Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan Policy, West Point Academy, Vietnam, Richard Nixon, U.S. Military Policy, Harry Truman, 2012 Presidential Election, 2010 Midterm Elections, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

As with Vietnam, the problem in Afghanistan is political, not military. The United States can stay there forever if we want to -- but is it worth it?

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Veterans Day: 10 Classic American War Books (POLL)

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Michael Herr, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Books, Veterans Day, War and Remembrance, Slidepoll, Jarhead, A Farewell to Arms, War Novels, Thin Red Line, Bestsellers, Great War Books, Joseph Heller, Dispatch, The Things They Carried, Caputo, War Books, Tim O'Brien, American War Books, Catch-22, Stephen Crane, Classic War Books, The Red Badge of Courage, Books News

In honor of Veterans Day, we've put together a list of 10 great American war books. These range from the timeless classics to the modern, from those t...

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No Time to Read? Go Short

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Kurt Vonnegut, Reading, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Dave Eggers, Leo Tolstoy, Book Groups, Book a Day, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Reading All Day, Books, Christmas Carol, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

There is a solution to the time crunch: the beauty and brevity of a short story. For those with circumscribed time, short stories deliver, and deliver big time.

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Look at the Birdie: A Review of Kurt Vonnegut's New Book

Bryan Young | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Book Reviews, Vonnegut, Look at the Birdie, Armageddon in Retrospect, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Book Review, Kurt Vonnegut, Media News
Bryan Young

The biggest problem is that each of the 14 stories in this collection are all classic Vonnegut, handcrafted to perfection by a master storyteller, and deserve your full attention.

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Friday Talking Points [90] -- Obama To Switch Parties

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Daisy Dukes, White House, Table, Medicare for All, Legalize, Barney Frank, Progressives, Fiction, Reform, Catnip, Rube Goldberg, Blackwater, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Assassination, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Budget Reconciliation, Reid, Nancy Reagan, Reconciliation, Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Terrorism, Mexico, Shorts, Terrorist, Massachusetts, Democrat, Kathleen Sebelius, Congress, Planet, Democrats, Lie, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Decriminalize, Mddotw, Health, Blue Dogs, Harry Reid, Vacation, Falsehood, Healthcare, Senate, George Bush, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Ronald Reagan, Senator, Tom Ridge, Cia, Kennedy, Cat's Cradle, Drugs, Decriminalization, Iraq, Obama, Democratic, Dining Room Table, Media, Truth to Crazy, Media Catnip, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, Edward Kennedy, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Obama Switches Parties, Speaker, Sebelius, Ridge, Two Bills, Michelle Obama, House, Aides, What Planet, Terror Alert, Obama to Switch Parties, Teddy Kennedy, Mainstream Media, Progressive, Grand Canyon, Chris Weigant, Naked Guy on a Plane, Senator Kennedy, Afghanistan, George W Bush, Healthcare Reform, Nazi, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.

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It's August 18th ...and The Living Isn't That Easy

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Office Life, Usps, Kurt Vonnegut, Facebook, Labor Day, Summer, Dog Days of Summer, New York, Business News
Richard Laermer

Since we are used to doing very little during this time of year, I guess it's time to relearn how to cope with The August Midsummer Blues. Here's what to do in the last weeks of August in 2009.

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Is Obama Selling Us Down the River to Big Pharma?

Bryan Young | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Kurt Vonnegut, Phrma, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Obama Administration, Obama, Obama Big Pharma, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Bryan Young

Bringing lobbyists from Big Pharma into the health care negotiations is anathema to the process and makes them feel like they deserve a place at that table.

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Dear Sen. Franken: The Terrorists (and Fox News) Win If You Stop Making Jokes

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Fox News, Seinfeld, U.S. Senate, Minnesota Senate Race, Kurt Vonnegut, Al Franken, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

Throughout your campaign and its aftermath, you went out of your way to not be funny -- please free your sense of humor from whatever black site it's been languishing in for the last two years.

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Weeds, Episode 2 Recap

Holly Cara Price | Posted 07.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Diane Arbus, 420 Moment, Andy Botwin, Jenji Kohan, Weeds, Kurt Vonnegut, Nancy Botwin, Esteban Reyes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Celia Hodes, Showtime, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

Nancy comes downstairs to find Cesar at her kitchen table. Apparently Esteban has assigned Cesar to keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't try any funny biz with his baby in her belly.

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Vonnegut Compost Box In Brooklyn: Beautiful, Vandalized

brooklynpaper.com | The Brooklyn Paper / Bess Adler | Posted 06.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Vonnegut Compost Bin, Kurt Vonnegut, Compost, Composting, Green Living, Giy, New York, Green News

One day after The Brooklyn Paper broke the story about the Vonnegut-emblazoned food scrap recycling project, a roving reporter happened by to discover...

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That Student-Teacher Thing

Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Student-Teacher Relationship, Elementary School, Goodbye Columbus, Bernard Malamud, Test Scores, Education, Merit Pay, Public School, High School, Middle School, I.B. Singer, Teachers, Catcher in the Rye, Philip Roth, Living News
Dennis Danziger

What I remember most about Ms. Fitzgerald's class is that when I wasn't staring at the clock, I was deciding which of my body parts to rip off and hand her in protest.

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Rubbernecking: True Beauty Finale

Holly Cara Price | Posted 03.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cheryl Tiegs, Nolé Marin, Kurt Vonnegut, Vanessa Minnillo, Philo T. Farnsworth, Tyra Banks, True Beauty, Ashton Kutcher, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

This show went on the air on January 5 and it's been a thrill ride ever since. By the way, I'm kidding.

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Obama and "The Chicago Way"

Martin Nolan | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: James Wright, Lynn Sweet Chicago Sun-Times, Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur, Mies Van Der Rohe, Boston, Richard J. Daley, Harvard FacultyClub, The Front Page, Sean Connery, Warren G. Harding, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Nelson Algren, Steve Neal, Theodore Roosevelt, James T. Farrell, Happy Days Are Here Again, Sy Hersh, Richard M. Daley, Willa Cather, Grover Cleveland, Stud Terkel, Al Capone, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, H.H. Richardson, John Kass, Finley Peter Dunne, Franklin Roosevelt, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Barack Obama, Howard Hawks, Blackstone Hotel, Dwight Eisenhower, David Thomson, Rahm Emanuel, Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Abraham Lincoln, 1968 Demorcatic National Convention, Chicago News
Martin Nolan

How does Barack Obama fit into political Chicago? I found out at another convention, Boston's in 2004.

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Joe the Plumber vs. Joe Heller, the Writer

Erica Heller | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Joe the Plumber, Publishing, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, James Jones, Books, Sarah Palin, Authors, Writing, Media News, Media News
Erica Heller

Madness and stupidity are, alas, not limited to the arena of war. The publishing world seems to also have stepped in it, and will now leave us its grimy footprints to follow on the real Bridge to Nowhere.

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Remembering Artists And Entertainers Who Died In 2007

AP | Polly Anderson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Deborah Kerr, Richard Jeni, Celebrities, Luciano Pavarotti, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Entertainment News

World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in t...

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