We saw Katherine and the governor again this Saturday at the 40th Boston Pride Parade 2010, a three-hour event that was cheered by hundreds of thousands of sometimes rain-soaked spectators. And, of course, those in the parade were soaked as well but the cloudburst totally failed to dampen everyone’s spirit.

Carol at the convention in Worster, MA – Governor Patrick arrives at parade – Carol and I rode The Love Boat, our aptly named float at the rain-drenched parade.

  After 40 years, the parade has become a mainstream fixture in Boston boasting contingents from the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, Sun Life Insurance, TD Bank, and TJX. National Grid employees escorted a brightly festoon bucket truck. A big part of the story on the parade as reported by the Boston Globe was not so much which politicians and their supporters marched in the parade, but those that didn’t.

  And of course, even those who marched are not guaranteed a vote. That depends on what the politicians say and more importantly, do, and what they do is most often inflicted upon themselves. As I wrote in previous epigram:

     The harm we do to others pales
     Against the harm we do to ourselves.