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The Funny Stuff | Grove Atlantic

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By P. J. O’Rourke
| groveatlantic.com
“P. J. O’Rourke was the funniest writer of his generation, one of the smartest and one of the most prolific. Now that he belongs to the ages, P.J. takes his rightful place along with Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker in the Pantheon of Quote Gods.”—Christopher Buckley, from his introduction When The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations was published in 1994, P. J. O’Rourke had more entries than any living writer. And he kept writing funny stuff for another 28 years.
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A Tribute to P.J. O’Rourke

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By P. J. O’Rourke
| American Consequences Verified
February 17, 2022 Dear reader, I write to you today with some sad news. P.J. O’Rourke, a legend in the literary field, and our courageous American Consequences Editor in Chief, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 74. All of us here at American Consequences and our parent company Stansberry Research are with me when I say that the world has lost a great writer and an even better man. We were blessed to have P.J. at the helm of this magazine since its inception.
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The Least Wonderful Time of the Year… College Admissions Hell

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By P. J. O’Rourke
| American Consequences Verified
November 19, 2021 By P.J. O’Rourke It’s the college admissions time of the year, and we’re going through it for the third time at our house… What a frog march across the fire and brimstone of paperwork hell. Colleges want your child to amass a towering inferno of recommendations, records, report cards, testimonials, test scores, teachers’ fulsome praises, questions to answer, questionnaires to fill out, and queries of the kind that are nobody’s business.
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