What awful times we live in. The worst of times. Who's to blame? Eye for eye, who's winning?

"There's nothing intelligent you can say about a massacre", as Kurt Vonnegut once wrote.

Vonnegut, who's about 81 and therefore has very little to lose, just published a stunning rant called "cold turkey". It probably won't cheer you up, but it's about the best summary I've seen recently of the state of the world we share.

And do you know why I think he is so pissed off at Arabs? They invented algebra. Arabs also invented the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which nobody else had ever had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals.