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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it’s a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also – to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry – knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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