P. J. O’Rourke is what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men.
P. J. O’Rourke is what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men. Instead of sour-faced curmudgeons bleating that ‘politics is just a load of crap’, you get a succession of amusing and incisive observations about why politics is a load of crap. And his solution is that we should stop looking for solutions — from politics, that is. For the real solution, we need to look in the mirror.
In his latest book, Don’t Vote! It Just Encourages the Bastards (Grove/Atlantic, £16.99), O’Rourke’s humour is used to advance arguments (‘the government is taking a third of your pay … is the government doing a third of your dishes?’) as well as to satirise: a typical National Public Radio headline, he says, runs: ‘World to end.
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