Adam and family take in the fair (he posts some pics). He adds:

... Toward the end, I saw a dreadlocked Jamaican Rastafarian driving a big van who needed to get past a road block into the pedestrian area. A crew-cut Boston cop approached the van, and I was bracing myself for racial profiling and intense scrutiny. I was pleasantly surprised when the cop just waved the guy on after he indicated where he was headed.

This is what I like so much about Jamaica Plain — it's as progressive as any of the more lefty areas of the country (Ann Arbor, Madison, Berkeley), but quite racially and socioeconomically diverse.

Abbyladybug posts some World's Fair photos, too, as well as some other JP snaps.

If you'd e-mailed David recently, could you write him again?

Aaagh -- somehow, my entire backlog of 39,000 emails vanished: can't for the life of me figure out what happened, and I haven't backed up that file for a month (your prayers to Norton Volume Recovery would be appreciated).

Randy: Can we all please rise and give Tim Wakefield a hand?

Johnny loves the way Eileen McNamara connected two recent front-page Globe stories on the homeless -one about us welcoming newly homeless people from New Orleans, the other about us forcing longtime homeless people in the Back Bay out of their overpass encampments:

... Translation: Cut the shit, you hypocritical bastards! I saw the same two articles that day, and then went on to not see inconsistency McNamara points out. That's why she's Eileen McNamara and I'm going back to grad school. Not to sound too sycophantic here, but this woman is seriously underappreciated around here. Why is that? Just because she doesn't whore herself out on TV and radio? She's a civic treasure, but people would rather hear themselves on the Chump Line. ...

My standard newspaper disclosure.