Each week Bostonist pursues your happiness by bringing you the best Boston-based viral videos YouTube has to offer. This week we celebrate our independence with the grand American tradition of the fast food drive-through. Pete Handelman, the man who brought you the Celtics vs. Lakers debate of 1986, gives us a look at what founding fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would order at their local fast food establishment. Bostonist holds these truths to be......

Needham 4th of July parade, photo by Pappatom Fireworks lit up the skies of Greater Boston last night. From our perch on the Mass. Ave. bridge, we saw four fireworks displays, including the grandest of them all, the Boston Pops extravaganza. (The other three appeared to be in Newton, Somerville(?), and South Boston.) Contributors to the Bostonist photo pool have captured the festivities for those of you who were homebound or out-of-town. Shooting from......

The condition of the Longfellow Bridge is something most Red Line riders and drivers would rather not think about as they cross the Boston-Cambridge border. If you've ever walked across it, you might have wondered if it would collapse with a mere hop, skip and jump. And it might, especially during the 4th of July. The Cambridge Chronicle just put the masses on notice: "Engineers at the Department of Conservation and Recreation, which controls the......