Kurt Vonnegut is now 82-years-old, but his steel sense of black humor and barbed critiques are just as sharp as ever in his latest book A Man Without a Country, which is a collection of short vignettes, essays, and articles, many of which have seen the light of day on the web and have become extremely popular already. Vonnegut fans will enjoy this piece’s usual infusion of cynicism and social awareness, in which Vonnegut spews bile at so-called “psychopathic personalities” or “smart, personable people who have no consciences,” many of whom can be found in the Bush’s administration. America’s invasion into Iraq was motivated by the need for oil and people, Vonnegut accuses, are just “chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power.”
