FULL PACKER PRESS RELEASE: April 12, 2007: The Full Packer Report is saddened to report the passing of famed writer and antiwar activist Kurt Vonnegut. According to this mornings AP wire, “Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84.”

Vonnegut was an existentialist in every sense of the word. While not a religious or spiritual soul, he believed in the individual and the virtues of free-thought. There is something very sad about a writer dying. You think about the words that will no longer be written, the pen that will never touch paper, the ear shattering silence of the typewriter that patently waits for its owner to return.