Irony, spelled "M-B-T-A".
by Cosmo
Mar 22, 01:09 AM
So the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority just received its Big Fat Compensatory Check from the events of 1/31. And guess what they’re going to do with it? Push the same, common-sense-free safety awareness campaign that started this debacle in the first place.
Awesome.
Mar 26, 08:45 AM
This idea of a “see something, say something” program reminds me of nothing so much as Dartmouth’s Honour Code: A nice idea in principle; but in practise, almost nobody who “sees something” actually says anything, and so a fair amount of noteworthy stuff — both good and bad — flies under the radar.
Of course, most of the people who saw the ATHF signs on 1/31 probably did say something — like: “Oh, ha ha, what the hell is that? It must be some kind of advertising gimmick or inside joke. Yeah. Can I have some fries with my burger, and some extra ketchup?”
But, once the Mayor had gotten his penis out and started waving it around, he couldn’t put it back without losing face (and that says something about his anatomy, to be sure). Now that Turner has paid off the cheapest high-exposure ad campaign of all time, we can go back to what we usually do, which is ignoring each other.