The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief.
P. J. O'RourkeIn comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.
P. J. O'RourkePeople have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.
P. J. O'RourkeHow much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
P. J. O'Rourke