P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourkeis an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011 O'Rourke has been a columnist at The Daily Beast. In the United Kingdom, he is known as the face of a long-running series of television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 November 1947
CountryUnited States of America
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.
The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.