An alternative scenario for the "Big Dig"

Every morning, for the last couple weeks, I have been confronted with multiple stories on the "Big Dig" controversy that is brewing in Boston. It strikes me this should be a local story, but those who select what articles make up "the national news" have decided otherwise.

I protest their decision by never hitting a link if I see the words "Big Dig," or increasingly "Mitt Romney."

Consequently, this could damage Romney's rumored presidential run, if there exists a consensus among news consumers this story he has become so intertwined with lacks national relevance. (Intertwined, according to those who write the links I don't hit.)

Another thing I've started to do is whenever I see the words "Big Dig" I imagine, instead of a public works project gone wrong, the Big Dig is actually a summer tradition in Boston were residents get to participate in an archaeological dig. They dig for dinosaurs or Puritans, or whatever strikes the collective historical fancy of Boston's famously educated public.

This year a woman died when part of the north wall of the dig caved in. Right now investigators are concentrating on eye-witness accounts of overzealous pick-axing from a group of Southie toughs.

I encourage anyone who has been bothered by the national prominence given to this story make use of my alternative scenario. For whatever reason doing so has pacified me on a subject I had previously found annoying.