I remember PJ mostly from his days at The National Lampoon. In the heyday of the counter culture movement everyone was a bleeding heart liberal but TBH I never could figure out which side of the left-right divide he stood on back then. Mostly, I assume, because he satirized everyone and everything. That he became later on a staunch conservative was no surprise because that's what smart people do when they finally grow up. I never read a single thing that PJ wrote that was a laugh out loud knee slapper, but he wrote several pieces that decades later I still find myself musing over on occasion. How many other contributors to The Nat Lamp can I say the same about? I haven't read anything that he wrote for literally decades so I can't with sincerity say that he will be missed. But his contribution to my formative years was significant and appreciated. He was not a humorist like Michael O'Donoghue or Doug Kenny but the magazine thrived under his editorship, putting out consistently good content month after month. That he was in his mid-20s at the time is a remarkable achievement in itself, in addition to the writing he contributed to the magazine.