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
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.