'''Patrick Jake O'Rourke''' (innate November 14, 1947) is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. Natural within Toledo, Ohio, he was educated at Miami University (Ohio) and Johns Hopkins University.

He confesses that in the period of his student times he was the left-leaning hippie, who in the 1970s underwent a damascene conversion. He emerged as a political observer & humourist sustaining definite libertarian, sometimes conservative, and emphatically anti-liberal viewpoints.

O'Rourke wrote articles for many publications prior to joining National Lampoon in 1973, where he served when managing editor among more roles. Running mercenary around 1981, O'Rourke's pieces appeared in magazines like Playboy, Vanity Fair, Car and Driver, and Rolling Stone. He in a future became the foreign-affairs desk primary at Rolling Stone, in which he remained until 2001. Around 1996, he served as a conservative commentator in the point-contrast section of 60 Minutes.

An early advocator of gonzo journalism, O'Rourke's nascent master-work in the genre was the National Lampoon article, appearing around March of 1979, "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink." A article late appeared around his number one book, Republican Person Reptile (1987), which became a best seller. When a book's title implies, O'Rourke espoused economic & geopolitical views that were notably right-wing (rare among comedic writers of the day), eventually his views in sex & doses remained uncomfortably liberal for numbers of of his conservative fellows.

O'Rourke might right become described as a libertarian (& has, in point of fact, sardonically projected ii more U.s. political parties: a single to cater for victims sustaining his peculiar mixture of views, & a second for people world health organization hang on to a paired mixture). He is besides a virtually all quoted residing human in the Penguin Book of Humurous Quotations.

His more books come A Bachelor Personal Companion (1987), Holidays inside Hell (1988), Modern Manners (1990), Parliament of Whores (1991), Give War a Risk (1992), All the Trouble in the Globe (1994), Age & Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and the Bad Haircut (1995), ''The Our contries Spectator's Enemies Listing (1996), Eat the Rich people (1999), The CEO of the Couch (2001), & Peace Kills: United states of america's Fun Up to date Imperialism'' (2004) ISBN 0871139197.

Presently O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow of the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, and occasionally appears on National Public Radio's radio game show ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!''. He is peradventure better known in the United Kingdom as the face of an extended-running off series of television ad for British Airways in the 1990s.

O'Rourke has been married twice, & has trine childeren; ii girl & 1 boy, a virtually all recent innate within 2003.

Quotes
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