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Massachusetts Flag Redesigns

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Massachusetts’ flag and seal are problematic, so every once in a while the state legislature pretends to do something about it. There is currently a public call for submissions, and while I don’t think I have any actual shot at winning, I figured it was a fun prompt for some jokes that aren’t about our country’s slide into fascism.

With the state and its cities being majority Democratic, Republicans frequently switch parties to actually have a shot at winning in general elections. Bob Kraft’s nepobaby Josh recently did this, and moved from neighboring Brookline, to challenge Mayor Wu, who is as good a mayor as I’ve ever seen. Kraft moved to Boston so hastily, he doesn’t even know what ward he lives in, something that everyone who votes regularly in Boston knows by heart.

If you’re not familiar with The Modern Lovers’ debut album, that’s what the seemingly random “Massachusetts Forever” panel is referencing. Jonathan Richman’s birthday was this week, so I’ve been listening to that album even more than usual.

I know it’s been five years, but yeah, I’m still salty about the Mookie Betts trade. The Bruins also traded longtime player and captain Brad Marchand earlier this year, and while he’s a a fan favorite, myself included, he’s on the backend of his career, not his prime like Betts.

As a native of Plymouth County, the pilgrims are synonymous with boring field trips and terrifying wax museums. Fuck them genocidaires and their buckle hats.

I’ve gotten a few comments that some of these should be t-shirts, so I did a soft launch of a store over on Threadless. I’ll be adding designs from comics in the future and promoting it more heavily once there’s a decent library.

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Take Me (Remotely) Out to the Ball Game

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It’s only just beginning to feel like baseball weather here in Boston, and MLB owners are clamoring to start the season and send their players out into a pandemic to make them money. I’d almost understand if those billionaires had to pay Boston rents.

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Bad Bleacher Behavior

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If you don’t live in Boston or follow sports, you might not be aware that Orioles’ player Adam Jones was pelted with peanuts and racist slurs at Fenway Park Monday night.

I happened to be at that game, and didn’t learn about the incidents (plural, since the peanuts and slurs were slung from different parts of the park) until the next day. A lot of Boston sports media and their callers and commenters became defensive idiots, with some even accusing Jones of making the whole thing up.

I believe Jones because I’ve been to Fenway more times than I can count and heard awful shit said in the bleachers and elsewhere in the park. I’ve also been to stadiums in other cities to know none are without racist and homophobic assholes.

Boston fans get famously defensive when things like this happen, which is not a good look. My fellow fans and the media should take a page from the Red Sox organization and condemn the racists in our midst and make them feel unwelcome. And if that doesn’t work, invite Antifa and Black Bloc on your next trip to Friendly Fenway.

As for the NYTimes’ newest columnist, Bret Stephens, his climate change denial is terrible and has no place in any publication that pitches itself with the slogan “The truth is more important now than ever.” But his bigoted “Disease of the Arab mind” comment should disqualify him from being published anywhere outside of 4chan message boards.

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The NYC Pandering Primary

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The NYC Pandering PrimaryNew York’s primary matters for the first time in decades, and all of the remaining candidates are doing some campaign pandering in the Big Apple. Events are scheduled in the rest of the state of course, but with 8 million people, and the headquarters of the media, there’s been substantially more emphasis on NYC.

I couldn’t resist including a little Easter egg for my fellow Red Sox fans. I’m thankful baseball season’s back, where even the Yankees-Sox rivalry is more civil than electoral politics.

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