Editing P. J. O'Rourke (section)

==Writing==
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O'Rourke was a proponent of [[gonzo journalism]]; one of his earliest and best-regarded pieces was "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink", a ''National Lampoon'' article in March 1979.<ref name="Pendergast2000">{{cite book |last1=Pendergast |first1=Tom |last2=Pendergast |first2=Sara |title=St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture |date=2000 |publisher=St. James Press |isbn=978-1-55862-403-0 |page=573 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=al4YAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Republican%20Party%20Reptile%22 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/how2/how2.html |title=Full text |access-date=May 5, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030124091317/http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/how2/how2.html |archive-date=January 24, 2003 |url-status=dead}}, ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'' mirror, [[Internet Archive]], archive made January 24, 2003, archive Retrieved May 5, 2007.</ref> The article was republished in two of his books, ''[[Republican Party Reptile]]'' (1987) and ''[[Driving Like Crazy]]'' (2009).<ref name="Urquhart2009">{{cite news |last1=Urquhart |first1=James |title=Driving Like Crazy, By P J O'Rourke |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/driving-like-crazy-by-p-j-o-rourke-1794111.html |access-date=February 16, 2022 |work=The Independent |date=September 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216032114/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/driving-like-crazy-by-p-j-o-rourke-1794111.html |archive-date=February 16, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

O'Rourke's best-received book is ''[[Parliament of Whores]],'' subtitled ''A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government'', whose main argument, according to the author, "is that politics are boring".<ref>{{cite news|work=McGill-Queen's University Press|first=Peter|last=Swirski|title=[[Ars Americana Ars Politica]]|year=2010}}</ref> He described himself as a [[Libertarianism|libertarian]].<ref>[http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/author_orourke091001.htm Live Online with PJ O'Rourke] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703193654/http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/author_orourke091001.htm |date=July 3, 2008 }}, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' September 10, 2001.</ref>

O'Rourke typed his manuscripts on an [[IBM Selectric]] [[typewriter]], though he denied being a [[Neo-Luddism|Luddite]], asserting that his short attention span would have made focusing on writing on a computer difficult.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/stray-questions-for-pj-orourke/?hp|work=The New York Times|first=Dwight|last=Garner|title=Stray Questions for: P.J. O'Rourke|date=November 9, 2007}}</ref>