Don't vote, it just encourages the bastards
By: P.J. O'Rourke
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780802119605
Subjects: Politics and government; Conservatism; Humor
Other titles: Do not vote, it just encourages the bastards
Description: America's most subversive conservative, O'Rourke describes government as a devil's bargain between power, freedom, and responsibility, and goes on to hilariously skewer the politicians who have bargained with us to consolidate power, and the many mini-bargains and evasions that citizens have made with the consequences of their choice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Apologia pro !%@& sua; title: The Sex, Death, and Boredom Theory of politics. Kill fuck marry ; Politics makes us free; title: and we're worth it ; A digression on happiness ; The happy realization that all freedoms are economic freedoms (and failure is an option) ; The murderous perverted nuptial bliss method of establishing political principles ; The purgatory of freedom and the hell of politics ; Morality in politics; title: and what's it doing in there? ; Taxes ; More taxes ; Being penny-wise; title: What is to be done? The U.S.S. Thresher bailout and the washing-machine-for-her-birthday stimulus plan ; And while we're at it; title: ; Generation Vex ; Health care reform ; Climate change ; The end of the American automobile industry ; The trade imbalance ; Gun control ; Campaign finance reform ; Terrorism ; Foreign policy ; Foreign policy, part 2 : it keeps getting more foreign; title: Putting our big, fat political ass on a diet. Why I'm right ; When the right went wrong ; A digression on shouting at each other ; The next big stink ; The fix is in ; All hands on deck.