Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

233 pages | PDF | 5 MB If satirists are at their best when tussling with something they hate, then this is P.J. O*Rourke*s masterpiece. He clearly hates government*and has hated it since before it was cool to do so*and for all the right reasons, too: it*s clumsy, inefficient, hypocritical, greedy, and arrogant. In other words, it magnifies the faults of the poor saps who staff it. Parliament of Whores is the humorist*s howl of bitter laughter at the entire bloated, numskulled mess. As befits an ex-editor of National Lampoon, nothing is out of bounds for O*Rourke. Speaking of the fabled football