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The Boston Globe’s got an article on how hard it is to find your way around Boston. Not exactly news, I’d say.

They cite the usual complaints (missing or incorrect signage, one-way streets, multiple streets with the same name) and point out how badly on-line maps deal with the area (the woman who wound up at Downtown Crossing instead of Codman Square because she didn’t give the site a neighborhood name).

My usual problem is making the shift from pedestrian to driver; one-way streets aren’t an issue on foot!

Ron Crews of the Massachusetts Family Institute is quoted in today’s Boston Globe as saying “States should be able to set definitions around marriage, and then one state should respect another state’s definition.”

Why do I get the feeling that the only “respect” he wants is for Massachusetts to deny marriage to same-sex couples from other states, and not for other states to recognize legal Massachusetts same-sex marriages? Since, when he lived in Georgia, he spearheaded their ban on same-sex marriage, I think the answer is pretty clear.

For Ron Crews, “respect” really means “do it my way.”