Occasionally I like to read a P.J. O'rourke book; in fact I'm in the middle of
one now. P.J. is a political humorist who can be a bit much. He's probably a
drunk and difinitely not a Christian, but he does write books about how
ridiculous the governemnt is, so how bad can he be? In my opinion, he's the best
humor writer of our day, though I'm willing to amend that statement as I haven't
read all of them. Anyway, he's at least better than Dave Barry. If you haven't
read any P.J., then please do, but be warned, he says bad words sometimes.
Here's a little sample: (In this bit he's talking about why the world would be
better if more people where drunks - one more thing, this very male humor)
"Beerjerkers and mug blots are careless and badtempered, it's true. But consider
the greatest evils in history. Is 'careless' the word you'd use to descride
Auschwitz? Was the rape of Nanking something Tojo did instead of kicking the
cat? It's smoking in bed versus the firebombing of Dresden. Real evil requires
the kind of thoughtful planning that is hard to do when you're wearing a soup
tureen on your head and trying not to let your wife notice your taking a leak in
the potted palm. The worst people always have an abstemious streak. Hitler was a
teetotaler. What if he'd been a soak? What if Himler and Goring emerged from the
Reich Chancellery asking each other, 'How do we persecute the gnus?' Real evil
also requires lying, and in vino veritas. "Adolf, you really ought to shave that
booger broom." A drinking man couldn't have written Mein Kampf. Give him a few
silly milks, you get Turn Your Head and Kampf. And think of all the suffering
that mankind would have been spared if the Communist Manifesto said, "Workers of
the world, it's Miller Time." - P.J. O'rourke, The CEO of the Sofa