RIP PJ!

Long ago, I read Parliament of Whores.

Congress has not improved since that book came out.

Courtesy Vox, a few good PJ-isms:

• “When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
• “Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power.”
• “The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns.”
• “No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal”
• “God created a free universe. He could have created any kind of universe he wanted. But a universe without freedom would have been static and meaningless — the taxpayer-funded-art-in-public-places universe.”
• “You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.”