I thank you Kurt Vonnegut, You Were a Champion. You were funny, irreverent, trenchant in your books and in the Mark Twain-like stand up I attended at the Montgomery County Community College auditorium some years back.
You survived in a bunker during the bombing of Dresden, lived to write about it in Slaughtherhouse Five... and yet now, how can we even conceive of any novel of dark humor being written about the Iraq War which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives, devastated the health of millions, degraded the environment and stolen billions of dollars we needed here at home in our cities for schools, public transportation, health care, parks... but wait, I can. It begins with a president intent on getting one Saddam Hussein becuase Saddam once threatened his Daddy and nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction....Sometimes awards are presented posthumously...might you consider writing a novel posthumously about our federal government's weapons of mass deception?


