P.J O'Rourke Calls for Bailout for Journalists

Nice piece.

Moreover, rescuing print journalism is a "two-fer." Not only will America's principal source of Sudoku puzzles and Doonesbury be preserved but so will an endangered species - the hard-bitten, cynical, heavy-drinking news hound with a press card in his hatband, a cigarette stub dangling from his lip, and free ringside prize fight tickets tucked into his vest pocket. These guys don't reproduce in captivity. And there are hardly any of them left in the wild. I checked the bar.

Late News: the bar has now banned smoking P.J. More mythology here.


For a more accurate vision of this world try here.


P.J. O'Rourke is 61.

The Rapture (part 2) - P.J. O'Rourke sees the Light

Let us bend over and kiss our ass goodbye. Our 28-year conservative opportunity to fix the moral and practical boundaries of government is gone- gone with the bear market and the Bear Stearns and the bear that's headed off to do you-know-what in the woods on our philosophy.

P.J. O'Rourke in the Weekly Standard.