Firestarter reviews the Patriots victory:

... This is not the team that won the superbowl last year, this is the team that won the year before-after just barely scraping by all season. Not a complaint about the win per se-my feeling is if they do it they do it, and that's what is most important. It's just frustrating to see good opportunities wasted. ...

Tomorrow's the city-council preliminary election, in which voters get to narrow the number of at-large candidates from 15 to 8 for the November general election.

You can vote for up to four at-large candidates. Larry discusses the pros and cons of bullet voting - in which you try to make a strategic decision to vote for only one or two candidates:

... So, to bullet-vote or not? The choice depends entirely on which scenario you think is more probable. If the race for fourth place is between your two favorite candidates, you should bullet-vote. If the race for fourth place is between your second choice and someone you strongly dislike, you should not bullet-vote. ...

Links to candidate Web site

Boston Brunch is a map and database of brunch places in the Boston area. Please tell me all the ways it sucks, so I can make it better! Like, for starters, let me know which places are missing (probably tons of them). But if you've been to any of the places that are shown, why not post a comment for them on how good/bad they are?

He's the Newton priest and outspoken critic of Bernie Law who suddenly resigned.

Cuenin baptized both Daigo and his son:

It is really really too bad, and I am more sad than angry ...

Domenico compares Cuenin to Dennis Kozlowski, former Tyco CEO and soon to be inmate because of the way Cuenin had been receiving a living expense stipend and car lease and insurance payments from the parish over and above what the rules and regulations of the archdiocese lay out:

... What's ironic is that liberals have been pointing to Kozlowski's antics at Tyco as another example of conservative corporate greed at the expense of the little guy. But here we have this liberal icon doing the same thing. I wonder if all the liberal deep-pockets in Newton will pony up to help Cuenin pay off his tens of thousands of debt when he's apparently done the very same thing that liberals have condemned in others. ...