A visit to Boston/Brookline/Harvard Square

On my way to Bar Harbor, I stopped in Boston. The federal tax dollars keeping the economy going (higher education, pharma, health care) have resulted in truly horrific traffic jams (4th worst in the U.S. as of 2023). This makes it easy to get photos of all the marijuana-related billboards, e.g.,

The healing cannabis landscape is best seen from the windows of a Saab 9000 (parked just outside my friend’s house):

His Brookline neighbor in a house that Zillow says is worth $3,217,600 (Prius is being charged under the sacred protection of the intersex-and-trans-enhanced Rainbow Flag):

(As the sign notes, refugees are welcome in this neighborhood so long as they are refugees from a diamond mine and have $3+ million to spend.)

The Brookline Police are celebrating Pride, as is the local veterinarian (albeit with a non-trans-enhanced Rainbow Flag):

Outdoor and indoor maskers are saving lives (Brookline and Fogg Art Museum in Harvard Square):

Why get groceries delivered by the Latinx essential workers when one can go to the supermarket and run the risk of SARS-CoV-2 exposure? (Star Market on Commonwealth Ave, next to an abortion care clinic and across the street from an essential marijuana store.)

In case shoppers have forgotten, the supermarket reminds us that “June is Pride Month”:

Next to Harvard Yard, stickers remind us to support “Palestine” and fight Transphobia:

The Harvard Bookstore tells us to “Read with Pride” and reminds us that “America” has been destroyed by the “antitax movement” (taxes having fallen from 2% of income around the time of our traitorous rebellion against legitimate British authority to only 27-37% of GDP today depending on which source you believe (37% source)). Maybe we could be great again if we restored taxation to the level that prevailed when the Founding Fathers were alive?

There were no Black customers in the store when we visited, but if one did come in by accident this book was ready for him/her/zir/them:

Americans no longer need to comply with Supreme Court rulings because the court itself is illegitimate and “lawless” (“no one is above the law” but the law itself is lawless):

The Pride collection did not disappoint:

We exited Boston via Massport’s Hanscom Field, under the sacred Rainbow Flag that was missing its intersex and trans enhancements:

The new Signature FBO is complete (let’s thank part-owner Bill Gates for his role in fighting climate change!), but all of the KBED FBOs are now fully locked down. One must ring a doorbell to gain admittance. It seems that there has been an outbreak of protests on the themes of (1) climate change, and (2) anti-ICE (see “Clarifying the facts about detainee flights” from the US Air Force base that shares the airport).