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

Life Begins at Menstruation

by Tip O'Neill on Apr. 13, 2012, under Arizona, Bigotry, Catholic, Christian, contraception, medical care, Republican, santorum

In the race to the bottom, Arizona scores again.

The “fiscally responsible, libertarian” Repubs who are in total denial of the fact that their party is now totally controlled by stone age christian religious zealots have passed the country’s most restrictive anti-abortion law.

In theory it bans abortion after 20 weeks of conception – but in reality it introduces a new medical theory. Evidently now life begins at menstruation.

“Gestational age” means the age of the unborn child as calculated
from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman.

So effectively it bans abortions at an average of 18 weeks.

Repub gynecologists know best, I suppose.

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BajaDemocrats

No choice for “other”? I think the Republican state legislators probably think life begins with a gleam in someone’s eyes. They apparently also believe in immaculate conception – if life begins at the last menstruation, period, then men and their wiggly little sperm aren’t needed.
Art_Jacobson

Good Grief! Just when we thought living in Arizona couldn’t get more embarrassing.

tiponeill

I know – u keep thinking we’ve sunk to the bottom and then …..

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