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
I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke."
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.
Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.
Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.
Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers.
Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.
This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans.
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.
El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.