Bostonist always has trouble deciding how we feel about well-intentioned but utterly useless projects. So it was with mixed feelings that we learned of House Bill 1881 in the Mass. Legislature, which proposes a statewide resolution supporting the Constitution and condemning the USA PATRIOT Act (which has to be in all capital letters because, annoyingly, it stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools for Intercepting and Obstructing Terrorism"). It's not that we......

DCist saw the sign. Our friends in Washington have a little reminder that tells them about the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq since the start of the conflict in 2003. Today at M.I.T. Dr. Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins talks about his study that attempts to quantify the number of civilians killed during the conflict. The study does not only attempt to find the number that Donald Rumsfeld won’t quantify in any......