“The Pittsburgh Left” — What It Is, and Why I’ve Grown to Hate It

[originally posted in 2007]

Mark Twain wrote that “familiarity breeds contempt — and children.” Most people use that phrase shortened, leaving off the “and children” part. (It’s like the saying “happy as a clam,” from which people usually unknowingly omit the remaining words, “at high tide.”) In Twain’s case, though, the first three words are, alone…