yeah was trying to do some kind of composite ranking

obv would rather live in San Diego than Atlanta and Austin than Philly

if it was where I'd want to live, Boston would be dead last of all those cities...I can't think of one thing Boston has that some other city doesn't have a better version of

I've lived in Detroit and Boston. I'd rather live in Detroit. It's ****ty but at least it's cheap

The "Boston Strong" stuff is overdone but in a sense I can understand it. It's a pretty standard attempt to rally a city after something terrible happens by appealing to civic pride.

My state (NJ) used the same tactic for Hurricane Sandy, flooding the air with "Stronger Than the Storm". The whole tag line is ridiculous on the face of it... of course we're not stronger than the storm. The storm kicked our ass and can do it again, any time mother nature darn well pleases.

But it helps people feel better and builds a sense of community so I guess what's the harm.

And just like the knowledge another storm might happen, they are running another marathon in Boston and let's face it the fear of another attack will always be in the back of their minds. All the tough-talk slogans are a way to deal with the underlying fear I guess.

Yeah, that list was pretty bad.

It's something like

NYC LA
DC BOS SF
Nobody Cares

That Hulk account is a fake. The great Hulk Hogan has never in his life uttered the word provincial.

#falcon2016

Expected life: 35 years

Expected time until Vikings ownership claims this new shiny stadium obsolete and demands yet another new stadium (on the taxpayers' dime) so that they can "remain competitive": 20 years

Meh the metrodome did about the same amount of time. Minnesota clearly needed a new stadium as well, the metrodome kinda caved in.

Regardless, it's a scam, but a small one in the grand scheme of things. The NFL being a non-profit is way worse.

Garden = privately funded

Boston wins again!

u taunting, conctrete,strong

I think it's too nice to characterize the Bombers as 'idiots' '******s' 'stupid'. That makes them seem like 'just some kids who ****ed up'. Murdering happy townfolk at the local festival is like a whole different ball park. Goh Red Sox?

So what was their motive?

The Washington post reports that Dhokhar Tsarnaev cited the Iraq and Afghanistan war, and also that the two of them acted alone, with no outside direction.

Cool, but that doesn't make any sense.

Why would Americanized 20yos, who are politically aware enough to understand contradictions in US foreign policy, decide to blast the carnival beer tent instead of, say, Dick Cheney? The Iraq war had been over already, and Afghanistan was supposed to be the legitimate 9/11-war, so ... what? They watched a Rachel Maddow-like expose on 'Why We Did It' and suddenly got frothy? To kill women in spandex, I still see no reason.

But what about the fact that the biggest terrorist attack since 9/11 was born directly out of our post 9/11 foreign policy? Where was the consideration of that fact when Obama was weighing his options over Syria later that year? Blowback from our anti-terrorism foreign policy is actually producing terrorism, yet we fail to acknowledge that fact in our ongoing anti-terrorism foreign policy? Hellooooooo. Maybe it is better if we just stick to threatening-sports logos.

The Garden is in NY, as far as I know.

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#boston

#HatersGhanaHate

I've lived in Boston but not Detroit, and I'd rather live in Detroit too.

Probably no running nerds ITT that would be excited about this, but if Boston's well being is somehow tied to Meb, that city be healed as **** right now.

Somebody check to see where Wally finished tia.

Awaiting the Patriots' Day Parade

This came up at the time, but like, if those two dudes had handlers, they were like the Keystone Kops of terrorist planners. After the attack, the guys just like, hung out for a week a couple of miles from the attack with their mugs all over the news, then when they were about to be apprehended, just drove around Boston firing their guns and chucking homemade kitchen bombs around town before finally just driving out to the suburbs for a final firefight and hunkering down in a local boat in someone's driveway. This is the plan of people who thought deeply about what they were doing and had assistance from the Syrians or something?

You take "I don't see how twenty somethings could have real feelings about America's foreign policy and make bombs with homemade supplies and leave them in a crowded place without help" and I'll take "if they got help, their puppet masters must be so inept at planning an escape we probably have nothing to worry about."

KISS method: two ****** teens imo

I'm not sure I would construct a theory of events based on 20-somethings having a sophisticated grasp of politics.

We live in a day and age where a full day per month is spent attending to "friendships" sustained through social media, where religiosity is sharply declining, and where time spent in the physical proximity of friends and family is more and more a rarity. Loneliness is rampant (http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/gene...iness_2010.pdf ; there's a reference to online message boards / forums in that study, but it wasn't all that telling), with twice as many adults reporting loneliness than had reported it 30 years ago. Is it really so surprising that people are more prone to turn to local sports teams for emotional support? Same goes for using sports as a distraction from IRL crises happening in your immediate vicinity.