Above: Channel 4 attempts to educate its audience about our latest crisis without giving them the vapors.

Oh, the horror! The Dig runs a cover showing crudely drawn cartoons of naked people and our little provincial backwater goes all to hell. As Channel 4 reports:

"It's totally irresponsible to have a photo like this in a paper that's widely distributed around our city," Menino said. "Young children can see it. It's not what we should be showing our young people."

Right. So keep them out of the MFA. Because you sure wouldn't want them to see this or this or this or this (and could somebody tell the mayor that a cartoon is not a photo?).

And we don't even need to bring up this scandalous statue - just a short walk from the children's room at the Copley Square BPL!

But Hizzona also wants to try to get Dig honor boxes uprooted from locations near city buildings - because you know how productivity must be suffering, what with frenzied hordes of Assessing and DPW workers racing out of their offices in a mad dash to Dig boxes.

Below: The shocking cover. If you're under 18, or are prone to inexplicable bouts of screaming hysteria, or are the mayor, stop looking now!

McCain didn't pick Romney - good!
At first I thought he was clever to pick a women- all the Hillary women who are picking McCain would be happy about that. Then I read her bio:

governor for 2 years
conservative christian
anti-abortion
mother of a 2-year old with Downs Syndrome
former beauty pagent contestant
got her start in politics by whistleblowing

Talk about no experience. What if McCain is elected and dies? Would the conservatives really like this woman?

Lori Magno notices that before you get to the friendly balloons at John McCain's Massachusetts headquarters on Tremont Street, you first have to make yourself presentable and not look like a common bum.

Watch it here.

It's not easy finding out how much postage a Massachusetts Abentee Ballot requires.

Well! Seems there were a few boos tonight when, before casting its votes in Denver, the leader of the Massachusetts delegation included the Red Sox and Celtics in the traditional list of things that make this Great State such a Great State. That's just fine with Beth:

... I don't know what I love more - that it's so perfectly, exquisitely Massholish or that the delegation from the great state of Mass actually incited boos during the formal nomination process for President of the United States.

The Dig reports the Boston City Council last week held a hearing on increasing handicapped accessibility in Boston in a room that was inaccessible to the handicapped:

Access ramps were set up in the chamber, but the handicapped-access door was locked, and no one thought to hire a sign-language interpreter for last week's City Council hearing. ...

Deval Patrick blogged answers to real-time questions from his fans earlier today on Blue Mass. Group.

Things are going well in Denver at the DNC. Boston is well represented here (I am merely a spectator).

Mayor Tom Menino addressed the Massachusetts delegation this morning at the delegation's breakfast. It was a good speech.

You can see some pictures on my blog, as I will be at the DNC until Friday: http://rosslevanto.blogspot.com

In addition to attack dog, a purpose Romney is filling as we speak, the top contender must also be uncertain about how many houses he owns.

Republicans have governed the country with a willful disregard for the issues facing the middle class. There is nothing about the Republican ticket in 2008 that would make one believe they have any intention of changing.

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