No doubt you'll be reading this elsewhere, but I thought it worth mentioning.  Novelist and rabbelrouser Kurt Vonnegut died.

While I was in school, Vonnegut did a speaking engagement at Syracuse University.  He was one of those speakers that could deviate from his notes and go on a tear.  You could tell that he truly felt what he said, and wasn't just there for the money.  He made us all laugh and think at the same time.