-- Buy Nothing Day turnout was discouragingly high. Retailers worry that consumers will not continue not to buy nothing.

-- Red Sox season ticket holders are scumbag profiteers shrewd financial wizards who sell tickets they don't own yet.

-- “Mitt Romney is throwing this very capable judge under the bus for his own political ends,” said Ed Ryan, head of a Massachusetts bar association task force on fair and impartial courts. “It is gutless.”

-- Christy Mihos, a leading opponent of the Cape Wind project, is a closet ironist.

Image of one of the many places where you are unlikely to find Red Sox tickets labeled "Bostonist" by Flickr user A Boy Named Hugh.