Published April 12th, 2007
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’
Vonnegut was eminently quotable, but you know, some of his critics were right: he kept saying the same things in different ways. A good thing, too: this survivor of the Dresden firebombing knew that it’s difficult to get the message of fundamental humanism across.
If Ezra Pound’s declaration that “artists are the antennae of the race” was ever true, it has been true of Kurt Vonnegut. His bitter humour and unblinking existentialism never careened off into nihilism. He appealed only for common sense: for decency, for grace, for something redemptive in the temporal crucible.
The gravestone in Slaughterhouse-Five says:
EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL
AND NOTHING HURT
Rest now, you scamp—you prophet—you jewel of the species. Rest in peace.
Published April 12th, 2007
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Occasionally, a jumble of non-sequiturs is so deranged that it transcends from incoherent nonsense to sublime poetry. Today’s exhibit is this attempt at a hatchet-job on WordPress and its developers:
[T]he only reason I know this, is because I happened to download the WordPress software and looked at it. WordPress isn’t even true XHTML or XML script or code, It’s PHP Script. and this is why it is so easy to hack. From what I’ve gathered, Blogger is a True blue XML Blog. For those that don’t know this, PHP script, is the same script that is used by your PhpBB message boards. and anyone with any kind of good computer knowledge, knows that PhpBB is *very* easy to be hacked. VBulletin is a classic example, as is InvisionFree.
Uh-huh.
And this, boys and girls, is why you shouldn’t punch way above your weight. Without a touch of savvy, all the courage of your conviction just makes you seem like a kook. My advice:
Step away from the keyboard and no one gets hurt!
