I went to the gym today.

My cousin and I bought memberships to the Danvers YMCA. He lives in Danvers, I live in Melrose. We found out that the Melrose YMCA is almost exactly twice the cost of the Danvers one. We're planning on going three times a week together; we went for the first time today.

Are you really allowed to use the eliptical machines backwards? I mean, it doesn't hurt at all to do it backwards.

Oy. . . ex-Boston pols can screw up like nobody's business

How do you screw up being Ambassador to Canada?

I mean, that's one of those jobs they throw you if you're no longer important, but they're not actually punishing you. Because, damn, what harm could you possibly do as Ambassador to Canada?