elfs | P.J. O'Rourke has cancer, handles it with his usual aplomb.

One of my favorite writers, P.J. O'Rourke, announced that he has cancer. It is, fortunately, a highly treatable form of cancer and he's expected to come through without much difficulty. But still, it's cancer. He handles it well:

I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.

Furthermore, I am a logical, sensible, pragmatic Republican, and my diagnosis came just weeks after Teddy Kennedy's. That he should have cancer of the brain, and I should have cancer of the ass ... well, I'll say a rosary for him and hope he has a laugh at me.

As the saying goes, read it all.