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 average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.
Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.
Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.
There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.
The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."
Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
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."
Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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 Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words,