"London kept the dance halls open during the Blitz, but Boston shut Fenway because of a pipe bomb."

[mythology]

40. The author is rather self-indulgent and doesn't make a valid comparison

I read the article and as somebody who lives in Boston, he can go piss up a rope. He can say it was just a pair of wayward youth now because the two have been caught/killed. It's a little different to say that when they were having shoot outs with police and killing/maiming people. The author is no better than Nate Bell calling the people of Boston cowering liberals.

As previously noted, the German bombers were in planes and the battle was being fought in the skies. I will wager that they didn't keep the dance halls in Poland open when Germany was invading because that an on the ground situation. Additionally the Blitz lasted nearly 37 weeks and the situation in Boston lasted less than a week, with one day on more or less full voluntary lockdown and the day of the bombing many places being closed. But Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were largely normal while the police did their jobs.

From reading the posting, I get the feeling that the author is sort of a real life Ignatius J Reilly the way he tries mock popular culture and people for liking it, but the author isn't actually funny.