“I’m Jeremiah”—Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

NOT all countries need a Jeremiah. But if there has to be such a prophet—who reminds mankind that God is angry and that the apocalypse will soon be here—then people will also need something else: moments to laugh.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr fulfilled both of these in today’s America—but he died on April 11 in Manhattan, New York. So it goes…

He was 84. Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, who sm