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Since many of our friends in other cities have included lists of the best places to cry on campus in their back-to-school guides, we thought it would be fun—if not a bit depressing, in a shameless click-whorey kind of way—to expand such a survey to an entire metro region.
Bus rapid transit is no longer a pipe dream in the Boston area
We pulled more than 1,000 words from the episode’s transcript, replaced (a minimal number of) dated terms like “horses” with more neutral or contemporary ones, and excerpted it below for you to have a good laugh (and/or cry) as you read this on an un-air-conditioned Red Line on the hottest day of the summer.
Even for this tortured region, Sullivan is something of an evil clusterfuck oasis, an otherworldly portal into gridlock that uniquely cripples multiple municipalities at once.
You will never see my ass on one of those fucking buses again.
On privileged lawmen editorializing protest news
![The following was submitted by Arlington School Committee member Paul Schlichtman in response to "Arlington Parents Call Out School Committee Candidate, Note Racial Disparities," published May 20, 2020. READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT DIGBOSTON[dot]COM! #politics #education #debate #ArlingtonMA #Massachusetts](https://digboston.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
