Kurt Vonnegut: Gone, Gone, Gone.

Damn. This is a shame; I know Kurt Vonnegut was getting up there in years, sure, but with him gone I feel like yet another chunk of my heroes of old, people who spent their lives fighting against the outright stupidity we get force-fed every single day, has disappeared. A bit of the smart, sarcastic, weirdly funny edge that makes life interesting is gone from the world.