Funny how little attention this bill's evolution has received in the mainstream media.  No hordes of reporters descending on the Bay State to talk about the "union busting" bill as in Wisconsin or Ohio, no gnashing of teeth about the "evil Republicans" with the mandatory man-on-the-street interviews and melodramatic gross caricaturist portrayals of "fat cat conservatives" . . . oh, wait, I guess that' because these were Democrats who actually realized the economic reality of what union-led pension plan costs were doing to the state's fisc.  So there is hope.  It seems that after the dust settles and the populist rhetoric dies down, even liberals can learn to add and subtract.