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This week, the men of GLoP remember a friend and someone who they admired from a far.
P.J. O’Rourke, the great humorist, satirist, author, editor of National Lampoon, car enthusiast, and all around good guy was a friend to all the guys and they trade their stories and thoughts on his passing. None of the guys knew Ivan Reitman, but as the director of Ghostbusters, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, and a producer on Animal House and Stripes, his work was an important part of their entertainment diet.
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Bit of trivia: the title of the last episode of the show Rob Mentioned, "Pig Sty," was "Leap Into An Open Grave." Which was also the name of a drink referenced in "Cheers," that Carla sometimes made. Including one time for Diane.
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Then there was that time in 2016 when P. J. O'Rourke announced that he would vote for Hillary Clinton because even though she was wrong on just about everything she was wrong within normal parameters. That would get him canceled in some circles.
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And just in case the Editors don't get around to posting this, here's a nice little tribute to P. J. O'Rourke from Rob Long and Peter Robinson:
Since you brought it up, PJ had become what so many in his (and my) generation ultimately turned into - the very thing they as younger men and women mocked and derided. Completely unaware of their own transformation.
PJ was funny because he was a counter-culture guy. He was a rebel. He thought outside the box (probably the experience with drugs, but that's a different subject).
In his later years he became just another fuddy-duddy curmudgeon lamenting about "kids today" and craving the "normality" of such people as Hillary Clinton.
Highlighting P.J.'s hypocrisy was his position - as a self-proclaimed libertarian - that Social Security payments should be means-tested and withheld from senior who make a certain amount of money. So, not only can the state take away thousands of dollars of your money for decades, if you finally manage to succeed the money promised by the government should get retroactively hovered because now you, according to them, don't need it.
Obviously, this violates any libertarian mindset on several levels, besides horribly undermining the public's trust in government promises.
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Not trusting government promises is probably the most fundamental part of the libertarian mindset.
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