It’s the birthday

… of Calista Flockhart. Ally McBeal is 40.

… of Demi Moore. She’s 42.

… of Jonathan Winters. He’s 79. “If God had really intended man to fly, He’d make it easier to get to the airport.”

… of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. He’s 82. The Writer’s Almanac has several paragraphs on Vonnegut, including this:

Slaughterhouse-Five was published at the height of the Vietnam War, and the book made Vonnegut a hero among the war protesters. Vonnegut said it was an anti-war book. But he also said, “Anti-war books are as likely to stop war as anti-glacier books are to stop glaciers.”