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    Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards
    Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards
    Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards
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    Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards

    Written by P. J. O'Rourke

    Narrated by Christopher Lane

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    Put the country's big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks which are the Senate and the House.

    Having had a lot of fun with what politicians do, P.J. O'Rourke now has a lot of fun with what we should think about those politicians. Nothing good, to be sure. Best-selling humorist P.J. O’Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, Don't Vote—It Just Encourages The Bastards. Using his signature wit and keen observational skills, O’Rourke reflects on his forty year career as a political commentator, spanning his addlepated hippie youth to his current state of right-wing grouch maturity. Don't Vote—It Just Encourages The Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious and sobering look at why politics and politicians are a necessary evil--but only just barely necessary. Read P.J. O'Rourke on the pathetic nature of politics and laugh through your tears or—what the hell—just laugh.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 21, 2010
    ISBN9781441885579
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    P. J. O'Rourke

    P. J. O'Rourke is the bestselling author of ten books, including Eat the Rich, Give War a Chance, Holidays in Hell, Parliament of Whores, All the Trouble in the World, The CEO of the Sofa and Peace Kills. He has contributed to, among other publications, Playboy, Esquire, Harper's, New Republic, the New York Times Book Review and Vanity Fair. He is a regular correspondent for the Atlantic magazine. He divides his time between New Hampshire and Washington, D.C.

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    • 2/5
      While the political philosophy is as strong as ever, O'Rourke's comedy is aging badly, resulting in a stilted and difficult read.
    • 3/5
      P.J. O'Rourke is my favorite humor/satire writer, and I absolutely loved his earlier works, so I suppose my expectations were too high going in. My hopes rose high in the beginning of the book (kill/f--k/marry is just as sharp and hilarious as I remember P.J. being). There is also a lot of very interesting and useful information, from history of this county's founding to a great explanation of why US infant mortality rates are higher than in Europe (the answer will break your heart). Towards the last 1/3, though, it gets less funny as well as less accurate. When he blames "conservatives" for subprime mortgages, No Child Left Behind and over-spending, I'm not sure if he wants to establish his credibility as being "impartial" or if he's just really that misinformed. By the time he gets to making fun of Limbaugh's drug addiction, there's nothing to do but hope that section of the audiobook will be over soon. What I felt was almost an embarrassment for someone I really like and respect (and paid $100 to hear live at a Cato Institute speech). I've heard from others he's been getting mellow after having kids at a late age. Maybe that's it. Sigh.
    • 4/5
      PJ O'Rourke in some of his finest form - some of what he writes makes sense regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum and I loved his summation of fairness in the world to his daughter: “How will politics be able to make everything fair for everybody? This may be a valid concern, but I am immune to it because I have a 12-year-old daughter and it’s all I hear. It’s not fair. It’s not fair. It’s not fair. My friend has an iPad. It’s not fair. All my friends have iPads. You let my little sister do this. It’s not fair. One day I just blew up and I said to her, ‘Honey, you’re cute. That’s not fair. Your family’s pretty well-off. That’s not fair. You were born in the United States of America. That’s not fair. Darling, you had better get down on your knees and pray to God that things don’t start getting fair.’”He also does a very interesting analysis of the problems of the right which I wish Abbot would read and take notice of. My big problem with O'Rourke is he is dismissive of what he does not understand - given he is a self-confessed Liberal Art Major the way he treats Science annoys me.
    • 4/5
      I read this as comic relief to the circus that is the 2010 mid-term elections. It served it's purpose with distinction. Laugh out loud book that calls it like it sees it. Recommended to anyone who just wants politicians to get over themselves. Argh, me matey (in reference to the last chapter).