So it goes

The best line I’ve heard on author Kurt Vonnegut is that when one was young his books and ideas were most appealing. As one got older, the books were still amusing but the author’s pacifism was annoying for its impracticality. Or something like that. He was also, for me, another casualty of September 11. Because when he joined the Left in comparing President Bush to Hitler, I lost interest in Mr. Vonnegut. Nevertheless, we should say of the dead: R.I.P.