This puzzled me at first. I was expecting an enumerated list. I guess I'm just not enlightened.

Deflated footballs are easier to throw and catch, especially in the stormy conditions that threatened the area.

Honestly? The gulf between 'ignore it' and 'a fully militarized response' is so large and obvious I'm having a hard time not believing you are a troll.

Yes, lets have the Olympics in a city that can barely sustain itself during the marathon that happens every single year.

And don't forget to subtract a full lane for "designated IOC officials only". I can picture everyone just using it flipping the bird as they drive/crawl to their destination.

If people outside Boston don't think this is going to be a shitshow, try driving on the Pike at 5:30. Then, imagine that multiplied by a hundred-fold. 8-10 hours/day. For fourteen days. Fuck that.

Boston is one of the great cities on earth, and we don't need rings to prove it.

One of the many that kind of sum it up.

I'm just hoping we pull a Denver '76 and vote it down. Sorry not sorry for all the hard work the private interests are putting into this to line their pockets. #Rome2024 we're pulling for you!

Boston's "celebrating"? Check out the comments on the Mayor's twitter feed to see just how happy Bostonians are about this:

You know exactly shit. San Francisco? You think BOSTON has mass transit problems? Or, rather, scratch that, since you've clearly never been to Boston and know exactly shit about it, it's actually one of the nicer cities in the country. It has water all over the place, green spaces, giant parks, islands, beaches, great…

Committee member 1: LA is the logical choice. It has most of the infrastructure in place already and has hosted one of the most successful games in modern Olympic history. It could be the first Olympics to actually turn a profit since...the 1984 LA Olympics!

The head of Boston's Olympic bid committee is a construction company CEO. This is basically a shuttling of public funds into his construction work. As long as Boston city taxes are used, fine. If they use state taxes, we're moving out.

Oh sweet Raptor Jesus thank you. Did not want that traffic around here.

Word around here in Boston is our bid includes a plan to build THOUSANDS more dunkin donuts.

It's nothin but anger over here for now

Okay, so I have a decade to get the fuck out of Boston

Boston was never asked if they wanted this— the Boston 2024 coalition refused to hold any public meetings, and it consists largely of a construction firm and other businesses that would profit greatly. Cambridge City Council, which would need to be on board given its proximity, has already voted against this.

Purple hearts just encourage people to get injured imo. We should be giving out awards to the lunchpail military men and women who manage to finish their tours in perfect condition.