Provincetown, Boston, Et in Arcadia Ego

The Boston Globe has an article on gay intolerance of straight people in Provincetown, where I spent a delightful afternoon last week cruising the main drag and marvelling at the omni-cultural ambience.

Yes, there are problems in Paradise. The Big Dig is turning into the Big Deathtrap as dozens of three-ton concrete slabs dangle dangerously over traffic in the $15 billion boondoggle that serves as an icon to Boston and Massachusetts politics gone off the rails. Yesterday, my trip to Logan Airport took twice as long because of the deterioration in Boston's infrastructure, including streets with potholes that are much larger than Chicago's and a lack of directional signage that causes all but local veterans to make weird adjustments that endanger traffic around them.

Perhaps, maybe even probably a sign that this state's bigger government and more taxes don't lead to better living conditions or kinder civic discourse, only to bigger political sluices into private coffers and to entitlement-minded citizens sqawking like nestlings for more from the public trough.