FILE – P. J. O’Rourke, author of “Peace Kills: America’s Fun New Imperialism”, speaks during panel discussion during a luncheon at the Book Expo America convention, Saturday, June 5, 2004, in Chicago. O’Rourke, the prolific author and satirist who re-fashioned the irreverence and “Gonzo” journalism of the 1960s counterculture into a distinctive brand of conservative and libertarian commentary, has died at age 74. P.J. O’Rourke was a friend and mentor.
When Kate Middleton fought off speculation and put questions about her health to rest with a dignified video, a few people were upset. Kate’s California-based sister-in-law, Meghan Markle, saw all the attention and sympathy Kate was getting, so she called Oprah and set up an interview to tell her about that time Wolfgang Puck’s in Beverly Hills got her order wrong.
We have combined celebrity with politics with the likes of Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former TV show comic now running that corrupt country. We should employ a reality show name: “Keeping Up with the Ukrainians.”. Who would have thought murdering your wife would be a good career move? We are in a very confusing timeThis latest $1.2 trillion, pork-filled, budget deal speaks to this P.J. classic. When I was at Georgetown University, we used to call Washington D.C.
All this leads us to my favorite P.J. quote: “The mystery of government is not how Washington works, but how to make it stop.” This manifests the maddening self-importance of our leftist government and its ineffectual answers to our problems — many of which it created with past solutions to our problems. Not a single Democrat solution to our problems is one that doesn’t take more money from us and doesn’t give government more power over us.
P.J. would love to make fun of our burgeoning “Deep State” today. All the uptick in crime worries me less than the growing and unaccountable morass in our government. To me, the criminals among us are less of a threat than a well-organized big government with enforcement divisions.