PJ O’Rourke

Turns out that the conservative humorist has cancer. From his article Give me liberty and give me death: I still cursed God, as we all do when we get bad news and pain. Not even the most faith-impaired among us shouts: “Damn quantum mechanics!” “Damn...

The $700 billion boondoggle

For those of us who believe in free markets, this bailout is a disaster in itself. It is in many ways the fitting capstone to the Bush dystopia we’ve lived the last eight years. At $700 billion (or more–we don’t know yet), the bailout, combined with...