Signs of Justice in Maskachusetts

I stopped overnight at Hanscom Field (KBED) and visited Cambridge, Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord, MA.

Shay’s is a bar in Harvard Square that was famously committed to ensuring drunkenness among Harvard Business School students (a good hunting ground for child support profiteers?). What is Shay’s committed to now?

I wonder if they will get a ticket from the city for failure to use the trans-enhanced rainbow flag that is the federal government’s official symbol.

A friend and I stopped to pay $40 for an Indian “street food” meal (that would have cost $1 in India?). I washed my hands in the All Gender Restroom.

The suburban towns were packed with signs advocating against the construction of additional hangars at Hanscom. If they get their way, the result might be an increase in the number of private jet flights that irk the almost-rich neighbors. Instead of the rich douche’s plane living at Hanscom in a new hangar, it will have to be ferried in for the flight and then ferried out by the crew to New Hampshire or Plymouth or wherever else hangar space was found. Jesus loves Black people and Rainbow Flaggers (but not the trans?), according to the First Parish Church in Concord, MA, but Jesus hates private jet hangars:

(The Unitarian Universalists also remind us that Jesus hates Israel.)

The righteous who oppose jet hangars say that they’re doing it because they love Mother Earth and hate CO2. But if they hate CO2, why do they live in huge heat-wasting single-family houses in car-dependent suburbs? Shouldn’t they all have sold their SUVs and moved into apartments in Boston or Cambridge?

Downtown Concord was dead as a doornail on a Sunday evening. We were the only customers incurring the risk of indoor dining at an Italian place. Sometimes locals ventured in wearing masks (not always N95s) to pick up takeout (SARS-CoV-2 is terrifying, but not so terrifying that you’d be willing to boil your own pasta?).

Traffic was a disaster, even on a Sunday, due to all of the new bicycle lanes that have been introduced. Streets that were formerly two-lane bidirectional are now one-way with a car lane and a bike lane (separated by ugly plastic stick-ups). I did see a handful of people using the bike lanes, unlike in the Washington, D.C. area. Old Georgetown Road, for example, has been reduced from 6 lanes to 4 due to the allocation of two bike lanes, one in each direction. I stayed overlooking this critical DC thoroughfare and, over a 40-hour period, saw exactly 1 bicycle. If federal government workers ever stop pretending to work from home, I predict even more epic traffic jams!

Any mention of Florida yielded an array of warnings: 101-degree ocean water, the existence of Ron DeSantis (cue the Two Minutes Hate), epidemic leprosy, books and education banned, etc.