P.J. O' Rourke dead at 74

The only funny conservative is dead. P.J. O'Rourke, a satirist happy to suborn his formidable wit to the braying morons of the right, had lung cancer.

He defied the leftward trend of American humour – particularly the 'gonzo' style of irreverent journalism popularised by writers like Hunter S Thompson – by offering a more conservative, but equally cutting and iconoclastic, critique of the nation's culture and politics. — Read the rest