Whoop whoop!

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:29:16 -0400

Whoop whoop!

Madness requires practice.

Tue, 29 May 2012 19:44:18 -0400

Madness requires practice.

thepittsburghhistoryjournal: On This Day in Pittsburgh History:...

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:40:30 -0400

On This Day in Pittsburgh History: May 20, 1887

The Duquesne Incline starts operations on Mount Washington. [Wikipedia]

Turn up the volume.

Fri, 18 May 2012 20:20:10 -0400

Turn up the volume.

Super cute.

Fri, 04 May 2012 02:26:34 -0400

Super cute.

Baldy

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:53:02 -0400

Baldy

Nicholas Cullison™ Trusted since 1989

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:30:58 -0400

Nicholas Cullison™ Trusted since 1989

A grandiose performance.

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:25:37 -0400

A grandiose performance.

Rejoice

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:02:16 -0400

Rejoice

terrysdiary: Me and Zombie Boy #2

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:46:34 -0400

terrysdiary:

Me and Zombie Boy #2

Yes please.

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:11:00 -0400

Yes please.

Been getting it wrong since 1366…

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:04:54 -0400

Been getting it wrong since 1366…

Woof.

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:39:48 -0400

Woof.

I must admit my love of Miike Snow…

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:31:38 -0400

I must admit my love of Miike Snow…

thepittsburghhistoryjournal: Fred Rogers (March 20, 1928 –...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:14:39 -0400

thepittsburghhistoryjournal:

Fred Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) and Josie Carey on The Children’s Corner, WQED, Pittsburgh, circa 1960. [Explore PA History]

Death to the Readymade.

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:09:08 -0400

Death to the Readymade.

I like to shoot ice porn…

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:39:53 -0400

I like to shoot ice porn…

Lulz.

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:49:36 -0400

Lulz.

Rick Santorum “Danced Around The Issue” Of Abortion Until 1990...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:56:59 -0400

Rick Santorum “Danced Around The Issue” Of Abortion Until 1990 Campaign

In 1990, Rick Santorum won a seat in Congress against seven-term incumbent Doug Walgren. He was touted as a young ally to the religious right and in the years to come, Santorum emerged as one of the most vocal opponents to abortion in Congress. But in this archived story in The Pittsburgh Press, Santorum states that he only came to terms with his views on abortion during the campaign.

Santorum is relying on the ranks of religious conservatives opposed to legal abortion.

This marks a definitive philosophical arrival for Santorum, who describes himself as a “progressive conservative,” and who did not have a firm position on abortion — a flashpoint issue with the religious right — until after he began his campaign.

Santorum said he had always opposed government funding of abortions, but “beyond that I tried as much as I could to dance around the issue, not really take a position on it.”

In fact, in a position paper that he later withdrew, Santorum “limited his opposition to abortion to cover only the time in which a fetus is considered viable — usually taken to mean the final three months of pregnancy — and to public funding of abortions.”

This is not a political blog, but I found this article in Google Archives and was blown away to learn that this conviction, one Santorum defends with such vitriol, was one that he struggled with well into his 30s.

“For me it was just a lot of education, a lot of soul-searching.”

That same year, Santorum married Karen Garver, whom he met when she interned at his law firm. Prior to their meeting, Garver was in a six-year relationship with a Pittsburgh obstetrician and abortion provider, Tom Allen. Allen was 40 years older than Garver — astonishingly, he had delivered her in 1960. The Daily Beast revealed this in January, but apparently it has been an open secret in Pittsburgh political circles since the beginning.

“Karen had no problems with what I did for a living,” says Allen, who helped start one of the first hospital-sanctioned abortion clinics in Pennsylvania. “We never really discussed it.” (The Santorum campaign did not return repeated requests for comment on the relationship.)

The six-year-long May-December affair, which was always out in the open, began in 1982, when Garver was a 22-year-old nursing student at Duquesne University. Allen was then 63. He was well known for delivering babies and helping to start a “therapeutic abortion” clinic at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh years before Roe v. Wade. As at most such clinics, sympathetic psychiatrists of the era attested to women’s fragile mental health as a way to skirt restrictions on the procedure. Rick Santorum has lampooned the notion that abortion statutes should contain exceptions in cases where women’s health is at risk.

Karen Santorum, shame on you. You undoubtedly used contraception during your 20s and want to deny your daughters the right to it. Before you met your husband, you had a six-year relationship with a man who provided abortions to women at a time when the right to have one was under attack, as it is now. You had a pregnancy that put you in danger and made the decision to end it — you should understand that it is not a choice that any woman wants to make, but thank heavens we have the right to make it.

As for Rick, you would like for the country to believe that you have felt this way all your life. I would have believed that easily if not for today, reading this paragraph buried on page 8 of a defunct Pittsburgh newspaper. If there is anything that could make your views more grotesque, it’s knowing that it’s all a dog and pony show to pander to the people on the wrong side of history.

“I’ll beat you to the top of the coconut...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:07:40 -0400

“I’ll beat you to the top of the coconut tree.”

La Collision

Whoop whoop!

Madness requires practice.

thepittsburghhistoryjournal: On This Day in Pittsburgh History:...

Turn up the volume.

Super cute.

Baldy

Nicholas Cullison™ Trusted since 1989

A grandiose performance.

Rejoice

terrysdiary: Me and Zombie Boy #2

Yes please.

Been getting it wrong since 1366…

Woof.

I must admit my love of Miike Snow…

thepittsburghhistoryjournal: Fred Rogers (March 20, 1928 –...

Death to the Readymade.

I like to shoot ice porn…

Lulz.

Rick Santorum “Danced Around The Issue” Of Abortion Until 1990...

“I’ll beat you to the top of the coconut...