• If you were excited about seeing Lindsay Lohan in Marc Ecko's new campaign, well, too bad: the label used a model for a body double and 'Shopped on Lindsay's face. But who is the masked girl? [Daily Mail]

Yesterday, we learned that voters were polled on whether Barbara Boxer or Carly Fiorina has better hair. Even without the 2008 election's bombast (Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin), the past year has been rather rocky for women in politics. Some lowlights:

So turns out no one thinks it's okay for state officials to pressure a woman savagely beaten by her partner to go away quietly, especially if her partner is the New York governor's right-hand man. How not okay, exactly?

• Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise were surprise guests at a "massive" Scientology party in England last week.

Who but Gawker's Alex Pareene could help me understand Bon Jovi's Iranian tribute song, Iraqi withdrawal, the New York Senate's misdeeds and the appropriately Christian punishment for Mark Sanford's sins?

More and more these days, politicians appear to be straying from their marriages — but, unlike in the old days where a short public acknowledgment wasn't de rigueur, today's straying politicians are obligated to old press conferences to explain themselves.

• Last night, Sarah Palin ended up stopping by a Republican fundraiser that she was scheduled to headline, dropped out of and tried to get back into when her 2012 rival, Newt Gingrich, took her slot. [Washington Post]

David Paterson made it official today and appointed Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. Hillary Clinton, in whose footsteps Gillibrand aspires to follow, has already called to convey her congratulations. [MSNBC]

New York Governor David Paterson is about to appoint Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, the right is obsessed with fisting and there's new evidence that racism isn't confined to the South.

The newest entrant into the race to be appointed to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat is infamous Hillary supporter and P.U.M.A. Harriet Christian, who now needs "an inadequate black male" to help her out. [Washington Independent]