How can this man be smiling?

Welcome.  Over the course of the next 72 hours a new, non-partisan, grassroots initiative is being born.  It's about the Mass Pike, and their expressed desire to antagonize us, the Massachusetts taxpayer, through the use of blatantly extortionist practices.

Check back often.  And send your Easter Mass Pike stories to info@masspikeoutrage.com. 

Now for some quotes from Alan LeBovidge, the evil overlord of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, as he blames "confused drivers" and "road rage" for the fact that they deliberately understaffed the tolls on Easter weekend:

He (Alan LeBovidge) said backups, to some extent, are not unusual during holiday weekends, but in this case the combination of fewer toll takers and some confused drivers and even some road rage created further backups in some places.

"Sometimes, you have to grin and bear it," said Alan LeBovidge, executive director of the authority, in explaining the agency's financial strains. "If you don't have money, you can't buy food and you have to go hungry."