Conan O'Brien Gets Ted Kennedy's Old Senate Seat Too!

• Everyone's threatening Facebook statuses worked!! NBC will pay Conan O'Brien $33 million dollars, and he can go back home to the television in eight months. [ Los Angeles Times ]

• Obama has decided that our country's commercial banks can't be as big as they want or trade for their own accounts, which is a thing that's problematic, because of economics. [ New York Times ]

• The new post-Scott Brown health care bill will have to take Scott Brown's existence into account. Sad. [ AP ]

• The Prince of Dubai restructured his country's government. It will be organized vertically, and will now be the world's tallest legislative body. [ Wall Street Journal ]

• Obama's first-round draft pick for Transportation Security Administration leadership has withdrawn his name from consideration. He used a federal database to stalk his wife's boyfriend, is the thing with him. [ Washington Post ]

• 23 Mexican prisoners died at a riot in a Mexican prison. [ CNN ]