Vonnegut is cool, except...

My only issue with the excerpt from Vonnegut's memoirs, about which I blogged here, is his absolute rejection of the semicolon. I love semicolons; they love me. They extend the range of expressive punctuation, and if anyone ever needed an extended expressive range, yo, baby. And then there's my fondness for remarking, "Yes, I went to college. Hard to believe, isn't it?" ..