• OBAMA SIGNS A LAW!: Your president, Barack Obama, signed his first bill into a law today, just like you read about in the textbooks! And it was the famous Lilly Ledbetter Act that will make it easier for employees to sue for wage discrimination. This has been a major women’s rights cause for some time, and now it’s passed, and we are waiting to see the reactions here and here, which seem a bit tardy. [Dow Jones/CNN]

Here is a picture of handsome Mark Warner in the alternate reality computer game for dorks, Second Life. What amazing things will Mark Warner have to say tonight? Perhaps, “Please do not confuse me with the fellow who was married to Liz Taylor.” Or, “I am a human who has no lower jaw, only teeth.” But first, some other people… like Lilly Ledbetter from Alabama. MORE »