Nobody’s Fool: P.J. O’Rourke
Nobody’s Fool
Ever since I read “The Parliament of Whores,” P.J. O’Rourke has been one of my favorite authors. I was sorry I missed all his Rolling Stones articles, as I was busy playing in bands and making a living at the time with little time for reading magazines. But, he’s still around, and so here’s a great quote I’m assuming, on the topic of his book about cars.
Cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in
Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the point-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain adn probe the enemy’s linees. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat.
Yes, and they want to take them away from us…you know it.
If you saw the movie, Atlas Shrugs, you will also enjoy his wonderful preview of the movie by P.J.. Nobody Thinks he got it right on. It was pretty boring.
P.J.—Nobody loves you, wherever you are!
Enjoy. (Thanks to Tom Beebe)
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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