It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.
P. J. O'RourkeThe Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.
P. J. O'RourkeIt's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.
P. J. O'Rourke