274: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P. J. O'Rourke

(During the month of September I'm recommending conservative titles with which every well-read progressive should be familiar.)

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Humor is the sugar that helps the medicine go down. In this case the ailment is Big Government and the cure is less of it. Much less. P. J. O'Rourke may be the funniest conservative humorist since... Well, maybe ever. He's not to everyone's taste, especially those who do not share his conservative views, but to his credit most of what he mocks is truly mockable. There's no doubt there's a lot of foolishness in government programs and O'Rourkes quick wit manages to skewer all the fools, including the ones who vote the fools who vote the other fools into office.

Why this is libertarian/conservative: A left-leaning comic writer in his youth, P. J. O'Rourke honed his skills writing for National Lampoon. By the time he became a regular contributor to Rolling Stone in the 1980s he was moved to the libertarian right. He is currently the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute.

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