Our hero-worship of P. J. O'Rourke is sustained by his latest journalistic tour de force, an article for the Weekly Standard detailing his experiences visiting the US Navy's aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.
Normally we offer a quote or two to whet the appetite. But O'Rourke is so inventive that we don't want to spoil for gentle readers the effect of reading his best lines in context for the first time. So just follow the link and read the whole thing.
Recommended comments: quote your own favorite line. Ours is his description of Barack Obama.
4 comments:
i'm gonna go with:
"But there's more to conservatism than low taxes, Jesus, and waterboarding at Gitmo."
classic!
"Landing on an aircraft carrier was the most fun I'd ever had with my trousers on."
"The Theodore Roosevelt and its accompanying cruisers, destroyers, and submarines can blow up most of the military of most of the countries on earth. God has given America a special mission. Russia can barely blow up Chechnya. China can blow up Tibet, maybe, and possibly Taiwan. And the EU can't blow up Liechtenstein. But the USA can blow up . . . gosh, where to start?"
"This is not a pilot taking off. This is a pilot as cat's eye marble pinched between boundless thumb and infinite forefinger of Heaven's own Wham-O slingshot."
In Charleston, SC, the USS Yorktown is open to the public. I briefly sat in the captain's chair after just having watched Tora! Tora! Tora! -- It was very easy to feel insignificant in that chair.
matt c
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