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
TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.
Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.