O'Rourke is one of my favorite writers. He is a journalist who actually goes out and talks to people, in-depth reporting. He has a knack for hilarious one-liners. He is conservative, too, but you can't have everything, and anyway he is conservative in the least annoying way possible, more libertarian than anything.

This is a gathering of essays on war and peace, and includes a few chapters on 9-11 (O'Rourke lives in DC, or did at the time, and he actually went out to the Mall and found only a few confused tourists--all from the same small eastern European country...). Recommended for those who like political humor, but if you do, you probably already know about O'Rourke. The only thing of O'Rourke's that I had trouble with was On The Wealth of Nations, because it reads like a bored kid making wisecracks in economics class--I couldn't finish it.