Just shy of eight months after Election Day, the Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman has finally been decided. The state Supreme Court upheld Franken’s win today and Colemen conceded defeat. Gov. Tim Pawlenty was set to sign the certificate of election this afternoon and Franken will be heading to Washington next week.

Terrence “Baby Wipes” Howard: Renee of Womanist Musings has a guest post at Shakesville telling off Ebony magazine for including actor Terrence Howard on the cover as a “Renaissance Man”. To be fair, if it is a “men with serious control issues who threaten to kill their daughter’s boyfriend, refer to her abstinence in creepy ways, beat their ex wives and say women aren’t clean unless they use baby wipes after urinating” renaissance, Ebony totally got this one right.