tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37475415.post5024588774345482306..comments2023-10-28T04:30:25.348-06:00Comments on A Blatherskite's Compendium: America, home of the ... Well, idiots?doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15057385645073028552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37475415.post-30686417005372236952007-05-04T22:21:00.000-06:002007-05-04T22:21:00.000-06:00Kurt Vonnegut opined in Man Without a Country that...Kurt Vonnegut opined in Man Without a Country that history is filled with guessers who became leaders, and that we are still lead by them, and that they don't like to let facts cloud the issues. Including the fact that so many things now done in the name of Christianity would make Christ himself very upset. And the fact that people in other parts of the world (did you know there is a whole world outside the U.S.) hate us not for our freedom and liberty, but for our arrogance. And if they can like us at all, it is because the U.S. invented blues music. <BR/><BR/>BTW, he also identified as a humanist and said that if he should ever die, God forbid (he was 82 as he said that), that we should say "Kurt is in Heaven now," because that's his favorite joke.Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00049439665349341210noreply@blogger.com