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
When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
People love to be told what they know already.
Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.