Where Are They Now?

In my latest installment of “Where Are They Now?” I wonder what happened to P.J. O’Rourke, erstwhile budding Reaganite and Bushie, on the issues of pressing concern to plunderers everywhere, whence comes the next meal, meaning how they will pay for a third or fourth vacation house or find the means to try to stay in them all simultaneously WHILE trying to achieve the wanking orgasm of Republicanism in an explosive, virtual-reality orgy of selfishness. Sorry about my style.

I got influenced by O’Rourke who is usually as clever as he is smug, self-indulgent, hyper-critical and misguided. He writes funnily about his adolescence as though he has escaped it but we recognize the conservative dream of living forever on the daddy-dole while deflecting attention from one’s own dependency by accusing the daddy-providers themselves of it, a clever bit of distraction and leap-frogging, lying one-upmanship popular in the 60s. Darn, the style thing again.

That shit is contagious. Anyway, also contagious is the financial depravity, it turns out, now epidemic, practiced by P. J. and his friends among the “libertarian” right OR left, who desire to be left alone in their lairs once they are properly funded by theft, graft, blackmail and other forms of easy money. P. J., write us some more on the rule of law, man, and your boy Trump, and don’t try to lie your way out of it, as though he isn’t George Bush with the parental supervision lacking.

Call in some supervision or do it yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/13/books/pass-the-salt.html

If you are curious about the strident righties’ search for the forever-tit of freedom look at the latest on the NRA. The board there has rivaled Trump’s cabinet in its penchant for organizational milking.