Lynch plays his cards close to the vest in what seems like a defensive style of politics. It certainly is not leadership-driven.

Take his process on the health care bill debate last summer. From March through August we heard Rep.Lynch say he didn't know how he'd vote on the bill. At the same time, he did not take a leadership role in shaping it. In August at Curry, Rep. Lynch held a town hall meeting and said he had read the bill but still didn't know how he was going to vote. Once again, his constituents could not get a bead on where he stood.

Perhaps even more stunningly at that town hall meeting, Rep. Lynch was given the chance to answer a question about death panels (after all he had read the bill) and refudiate (sic) ;-) the meme that right wing Republican liars and Fox News had made popular. Lynch equivocated! He would not take a stand!

Won't take on Mike Rush for Marian Walsh's Suffolk and Norfolk state-senate seat, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reports.

Ferrari falls off truck at Boch's new Ferrari/Maserati dealership, but at least the wipers still worked. With exclusive video from Channel 25, which sent its news copter out to cover this shocking story.

Via Phillip McCarthy.

Chris Devers took in the Wings of Freedom tour of World War II aircraft yesterday at the Norwood municipal aerodrome.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the chain aims to cure Norwood's burrito deficiency with a new location at Dean Street, because apparently the Chipotle in Dedham is just too damn far away.

Trying to light the pilot at Brothers Bakery, 1140 Washington St.

I know, it's stupid to get upset about a change of ownership signs at a gas station you never actually bought gas at, but Lyss's photo showing what's going on at Rojo in Norwood leaves me a little verklempt. There was just something about that place, with its employees whose sole job was to direct cars in the ever present lines to the next available pump, its three different types of car wash (including the mysterious Laser Wash), even that weird bookstore, all combined to make it seem like a place out of time. And apparently it was, because now it's becoming an Irving. "The mystery of Rojo" sounds cool. "The mystery of Irving" sounds, well, lame.

Whoa: The last time I was in a Mug 'N Muffin, I could still watch Bobby Orr advertising BayBanks on the TV I'd picked up at Lechmere. But time moves more slowly in Norwood Center, apparently - they still have a Mug 'N Muffin (at 716 Washington St.).

Walk in and it's exactly as you remember them - a smallish, darkish place with wooden-beam ceilings (in this case, faux beams, in the sense that you can see how they aren't actually holding up the ceiling). In other words, sort of like you'd expect your grandma's kitchen to be if she lived in Vermont, right down to the decorations on the walls:

As for the food, it's basic breakfast fare, done right - assuming you like everything doused in butter, and who doesn't? Also inexpensive, even if you don't get there in time for the early-morning specials.

Oh yeah, and they serve their hot drinks in mugs:

UPDATE: We try the Town Square Diner.