Sean's blog

With our neighborhoods increasingly overrun by bank branches, it must count as a minor victory that only half of the former CVS store abandoned when the pharmacy moved across the street is a bank.

The other half is a shiny new branch of the Chipotle chain. They were giving out free burritos at their official opening yesterday. When I rode by at about 6, the line was out-the-door and down to the corner by the Store24.

In Thursday's Republican debate, Tim Russert issued one of his inane Russertian gotchas, catching John McCain in a contradiction over whether or not he's ever said he's ignorant on matters economic.

Over at the Globe's Political Intelligence blog, James Smith supplies prosecutor Russert with the evidence.

The Boston Archdiocese is moving its administrative offices to a donated office building in Braintree that is more than one mile from any T service.

Not green. Not good for the church's poor constituents.

Bad decision.

Walking through South Station this morning I saw a commuter rail employee carrying a sweatshirt professionally screened with:

MBCR
FUBAR

Saw this guy chillin' by the Chestnut Hill reservoir.

Scot Lehigh gets it exactly wrong in the lead paragraph of his column today:

MOST CAMPAIGNS' [sic] are fought over issues. But this Democratic presidential campaign has been focused on something a good deal less concrete: professed governing styles.

He's right that the key factor is now governing style and the analysis that follows is sound, if not particularly insightful.