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
The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.
As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.