The article starts "Kurt Vonnegut, who was born 100 years ago this month". Today is November 9 and according to Wikipedia Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922.
Man, reading comprehension is a funny old bugger. You can be intelligent and literate and educated and genuinely whip-smart and Muphry's Law will still fuck you the second you look away.
> Muphry's Law
I'm going to assume that was an intentional misspelling to prove the point.