'everything is illegal in massachusetts.'

LOL, that line was funny.

"Guys like you don't die on toilets." Mel Gibson-Riggs, Lethal Weapon

I've never been to America but for some reason I laughed a lot at that

No, two years before this film was released pot became legal in Massachusetts. That’s one exception.

Massachusetts, my adopted home state, was settled by Puritan fundamentalists who rejected anything that was fun. The Puritans left England because they felt that every other Christian sect was too understanding and forgiving. They were the Nazis of Christianity. They were followed here by greedy Yankee/Brahmin assholes, who settled on Boston’s Beacon Hill and who looked down on everyone else. Did you know that Boston Yankee/Brahmins created the private gentleman’s club? I don’t mean strip clubs. I mean The Algonquin Club and The Harvard Club,etc., institutions of that ilk. My city created them so the Yankee/Brahmins could get blind, stinking drunk in private while maintaining a public image of piety and rectitude. Massachusetts liquor stores used to be closed, by law, on Sunday, until the Commonwealth (we are not a state, we are a Commonwealth) saw how much booze revenue they were losing to New Hampsire and Rhode Island on Subdays, and now package stores can sell till 6 PM on Sunday. So it’s only, I guess, half a sin.

It’s illegal to buy fireworks in Massachusetts, but not in New Hampshire, so guess where kids shop to get their fingers blown off? Public drinking is illegal in The Bay State: (1) Which is why you see so many Bay Staters drinking out of bottles etc. surrounded by a brown paper bag. (2) Do you know why the Jello Shot was created? Every 4th of July, The Boston Pops give a huge, free, wonderful concert at The Hatch Shell on the Charles River Esplanade. It is magical. The setting, the musicianship, the program selection combine to create one of the true cultural treasures of the city that is known as The Athens of America. There is significant police presence at the event, which draws tens of thousands of people. All coolers are inspected, and all alcohol is confiscated. Jell-O, on the other hand, is A-OK. You can connect the dots.

I am not slamming my city. I love Boston. I love and embrace The Commonwealth. I would not be anywhere else. CONTINUED