Lovely book I discovered by P.J. O'Rourke, just into the aknowledgments and already ran into a gem...(Hesus, my editor just left the room, thank gawd. He is giving me grief about my terrible sentence structure and poor word choice before I even finish the sentence. And looking over my shoulder asking questions about plagerism. Impossible working environment. He loaned me the book by the way.)
The author is advising how Andy Ferguson, former Assistant Managing Editor of the American Spectator was a great influence on him - when he could get a word in edgewise. This is the vii page quote that immediately charmed me:
Not long after Andy and I met, we were driving down Pennsylvania Avenue and encountered some or another noisy pinko demonstration. "How come," I asked Andy, "whenever something upsets the Left, you see immediate marches and parades and rallies with signs already printed and rhyming slogans already composed, whereas whenever something upsets the Right, you see two members of the Young Americans for Freedom waving a six-inch American flag?"
"We have jobs," said Andy
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