... TagViewer (entries by tag)
P. J. O’Rourke has one of the best election postmortems I’ve read so far: We Blew It. In how many ways did we fail conservatism? And who can count that high? Take just one example of our unconserved tendency to poke our noses into other people’s business: abortion. Democracy—be ...
P. J. O'Rourke, conservatism, Social Conservatives, Abortion, Democracy
A commencement address from P. J. O’Rourke, imparting wisdom to callow youth: Fairness, idealism and other atrocities. 3. Get politically uninvolved! All politics stink. Even democracy stinks. Imagine if our clothes were selected by the majority of shoppers, which would be teenage girls. I’d be standing here with my ...