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
Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.
This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you..
The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.
Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.
There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.
Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.