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Modern Manners : An Etiquette Book for Rude PeopleA charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.Weird clothing is de rigeurfor teenagers, but today's generation of teens is finding it difficult to be sufficiently weird. This is because the previous generation of teens, who went through adoles...Full title: The Bachelor Home Companion. A practical guide to keeping house like a pig.A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I be...A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one — not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.
Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the res...Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them...
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors— psychology, sociology, women's studies— to prove that nothing is an...
Speech delivered May 6, 1993 for the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C.Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free a...There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.All the Trouble in the World. The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague and Poverty. Things are better now than things have been since men began keeping track of things. Things are better than they were only a few years ago. Things are better, in fact, than they were at 9:30 this morning, thanks to Tylen...
O'Rourke, P. J. (1996). Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (1st edition ed.). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. pp. 368 pp.. ISBN 978-0-87113-653-4.Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.We’re told cars are dangerous. It’s safer to drive through South Central Los Angeles than to walk there. We’re told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground...O'Rourke, P. J. (1996). Why I Am a Conservative(1st edition ed.). Second Thoughts Books. pp. 24 pp.. 978-1886442085.There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as caring and sensitive because he wants to expand the government's c...At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
Feb 15, 2022 · P. J. O'Rourke Quote. At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
Jun 7, 2024 · The thought of having children, in these mostly progressive circles, is often weighed against rising existential risk, whether stemming from climate change, the emergence of the far right, or...
Feb 15, 2022 · For liberalism’s founding thinkers, the University of Virginia politics professor Rita Koganzon argues convincingly in her recent book, Liberal States, Authoritarian Families, the solution to...
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The article focuses on the internal debate; specifically, it surveys three fundamental questions of liberal equality that have received considerable attention in the literature. Keywords: American philosophy, liberalism, liberal equality, distributive commitment, economic inequalities, social inequalities.
