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When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people

When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power already. This is why government benefits usually go to people who don't need benefits from government. Government may make some environmental improvements, but these will be improvements for rich bird-watchers. And no one in government will remember that when poor people go bird-watching they do it at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

P. J. O'Rourke
Fashion, Government, Kentucky
"All the Trouble in the World". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.

P. J. O'Rourke
Fashion, Jobs, Power
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.

P. J. O'Rourke
Fashion, Morning, Coffee
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.318, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.

P. J. O'Rourke
Fashion, Dirty, Men
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

P. J. O'Rourke
Funny, Life, Fashion
P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.

P. J. O'Rourke
Fashion, Sex, Taste
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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