buddy larsen @ 32:
I’ve read and enjoyed many of Vonnegut’s novels including “The Sirens of Titan”. “Cat’s Cradle” and “Player Piano” are two other important novels by Vonnegut. I was actually thinking about Vonnegut when I wrote my earlier comment about how intelligent, well educated and moral people can be pathologically liberal. Vonnegut wrote some incredibly stupid things about Islamic terrorism. For example from Wikipedia:

“I regard them as very brave people.” “They [suicide bombers] are dying for their own self-respect. It’s a terrible thing to deprive someone of their self-respect. It’s [like] your culture is nothing, your Race is nothing, you’re nothing … It is sweet and noble—sweet and honourable I guess it is—to die for what you believe in.”

This is the sort of moonbat nonsense that one would expect from Noam Chomsky. It amazes me that this nonsense came from the same guy who wrote “Cat’s Cradle”. People defend Vonnegut by saying he made his comments on Islamic terrorism when he was old and dotty. However I suspect he would have held the same opinions when he was in his prime.