P.J. O’Rourke, the prolific political satirist and bestselling author who died today at 74, wrote with a sharp elbow dipped in ink. A proud conservative Republican who came of age in Richard Nixon’s America, he first gained fame as a writer for National Lampoon in the early ’70s and will forever be remembered by fans of sophomoric humor for his 1979 article, “How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.”
O’Rourke also took Forbes readers on a few wild rides over the years. A frequent contributor to Forbes FYI—the lifestyle magazine founded by his old chum Christopher Buckley in 1990 and later rechristened as ForbesLife—he appeared in the inaugural issue, where he turned his
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