One Of The Heroes Of My Generation

[Ponca Dan]

Dead at 74. I will wear a black armband for the next week in your honor, PJ. Rest in peace.

Conservative Satirist P.J. O'Rourke Dead at 74

That description of the two parties appeared in the New York Times in 2012, long after P.J. O'Rourke had established himself

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[JimmyBob]

Priceless!

“I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat,” he wrote in what many consider his signature book, Parliament of Whores, a riotous view of American politics which he wrote in 1991.

 

[Ponca Dan]

Priceless!

“I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat,” he wrote in what many consider his signature book, Parliament of Whores, a riotous view of American politics which he wrote in 1991.

One of the greatest lines he ever wrote, and one I tended to follow in my younger days, was not political, it was life affirming: "It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money."