It's upsetting how unfunny he is in the clip. He can do better.

It's worse than that, O'Rourke is the proto-douchebag. He was only a hippy because it was offensive to his Harvard pals, and the second the hippies started gaining traction, he switched sides to offend them, too. He's a deliberate contrarian, nothing more, and has never been anything but.

I lost patience with O'Rourke when he took to arguing that taxation deprives people of the opportunity to give to charity. I have yet to meet the person whose priorities are "basic necessities, then taxes, then charity, then leisure items"; people put leisure goods ahead of charity, and that's what taxes cut into. And that's really what O'Rourke is objecting to, but is trying to make it sound like a virtue. Douchebag.

... Actually I do know people who put charity above leisure, but they are pleased as punch that there is an organization like the government that can challenge poverty on a large scale. So they aren't the people O'Rourke is making excuses for.

Sadly, he's usually quite amusing on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me."

One episode had a question about amusing current events which was "who just developed what's being marketed as the first wine target at men." The answer was "NASCAR." O'Rouke interrupted and said, "Excuse me? 'What's the word? THUNDERBIRD!'"

Somewhere under Mr. Curmudgeon-For-A-Paycheck is a halfway-witty person. It's tragic, really. At least Dennis Miller had the good graces to lose what little sense of humor he had when he went over to the Fox side.

I believe he is running again.

I really missed Grayson. So glad to see him again.

I was thinking, "That looks like one of the Irish guys from Alan Partridge"...and now he has a name. Thanks!

You pick up things like that when you're Batman's sidekick for a while.

hella groaning over here

Holy Groaning Internet Poster, Batman!