“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”

— P. J. O’Rourke

Author P. J. O’Rourke died yesterday evening. John Podhoretz called him possibly “the nicest man I’ve ever known.”

“It isn’t an exaggeration to say that P.J. was, for a long time, the only cool conservative writer in America.”

Our friend (I say perhaps too presumptively, as if we are actual friends or that I have friends at all), and in case you missed it, let me repeat, our friend Anthony Sacramone points to an awakening moment for him in the pages of O’Rourke’s Republican Party Reptile. “I’m not alone! You can be an anti-communist and funny!”