About Tip

"Oh God, here comes that aging hippie liberal d**che, we better get out of here before we have to hear his bitching." - Cartman - South Park

Thomas P ONeill has been a Tucson resident for 6 years, retiring here in order to be close to family. He was awarded the nickname "Tip" after the esteemed Congressman when he lived in Cambridge and his name was listed before the Congressman's in the phone book.
(A "phone book" is a large paper volume which was used as a telephone number reference in the days before Google - you could have your name removed for a small fee, used to cover the expense of moving all the other phone numbers up by one)
Much to the chagrin of teabaggers everywhere he has never received a dime of government assistance in any form, actually working for a living - first as a medical technologist and then as a computer programmer.
(Excuse me - "software architect")
He did, however, succumb to the urge to name his son after Timothy Leary.
Heavily influenced while reading Catch-22 on morphine drip following an appendectomy ( the morphine was neccessary to soothe the convulsions of laughter) he later lived at Ft. Benning Ga near the BOQ where Rusty Calley endured his three years of semi-confinement for raping, torturing and mutilating 70 or 80 women and children and, seeing the harsh punishment accorded our glorious military, decided that it was not to be his career path.
Thus began his descent into hippiedom.
Stereotypically his favorite musicians are Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, favorite artist John Singer Sargent, favorite director Stanley Kubrick, favorite playwrights Stoppard and Tennesee Williams, favorite lyricist Sondheim, favorite philosophers Bertrand Russell and Voltaire, favorite fiction science fiction of the Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein variety.
Again stereotypically, the product of parochial school (and Altar Boy of the Year) he is a radical gay athiest.

Aging Hippie Dispatch

JFK on Religion in Government

by Tip O'Neill on Jan. 05, 2012, under Atheism, Bigotry, Catholic, Christian, GLBT, santorum

I just saw this again.

Imagine a country where preachers don’t tell people how to vote,
we don’t judge our leaders by their religion, we don’t give tax money
to church schools or institutions.

It is sad how far our country has fallen.

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http://none JimBodkins

The failure of government – and the success of the cultural warriors of the right – is on the shoulders of the citizens. (My opinion)

Politicians respond to pressure – which does not come from the citizens. We know its source. The culture warriors have made gains because they could, because it was not terribly difficult.

In a healthy democracy, citizens are and stay engaged. This isnt a healthy democracy. It has a fatal flaw – the american citizen.
Jim Gressinger

So many Americans ignore the fact that America is, and always has been, a nation of bigots. That JFK had to spell out his “Separation of Church & State” ideals was, for me at the time, appalling. (Yes, I was around way back then to actually see his speech in Houston live.)
Today, as in yesteryear, religion is a central tenant of American politics. There is a simple explanation. You and millions of other Americans who understand the “Establishment Clause” of our Constitution and the Jeffersonian Principle of Separation of Church & State have not done nearly enough to counter the influence of the Christian wackos. You’ve been a part of the problem, not the solution. Get off your butts and go fight the bigots.
To paraphrase Dick Cavett, “It’s a rare individual who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.” DO SOMETHING.
jg
Tip O’Neill

> DO SOMETHING.

Since you obviously know what I have done, perhaps you could enlighten me as to what I have failed to do ?

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