Comments on: Microblog 2008-11-10 https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/microblog-2008-11-10/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:43:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: SSFC https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/microblog-2008-11-10/comment-page-1/#comment-34428 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:43:25 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/microblog-2008-11-10/#comment-34428 As bad as American government is, you haven’t even started, with government or O’Rourke. Try his essays on the efforts of the Bangladeshi government to promote jute exports, or the last Filipino election under Ferdinand Marcos. (By the way, pray Obama doesn’t give State to John Kerry, who’s featured prominently and unflatteringly in O’Rourke’s reporting on that election.)

There can be no greater proof that the New York Times is biased than that a hack like David Brooks (not really a hack, but in comparison to O’Rourke all of us mortals are hacks) got the column seat, and the salary and recognition, that rightfully belonged to P. J. O’Rourke when Safire stepped down from the Times’ token conservative slot.

]]> By: Bumper https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/11/microblog-2008-11-10/comment-page-1/#comment-34396 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:28:13 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/microblog-2008-11-10/#comment-34396 Everything I know about the American form of government I learned from PJ O’Rourke, and he is still a masterful teacher. Every Republican politician and those who aspire to be should be required to recite “We Blew It” from memory to their constituents.

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