Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
P. J. O'RourkeAbstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'RourkeI went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.
P. J. O'RourkeMoney is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.
P. J. O'Rourke