I happened to catch part of an episode of Oprah last week. She was talking to Heather Armstrong, star of super-popular mommy blog Dooce , about the difficulties of being a mother. About her surprisingly interesting life. And about how she does what she does, which, essentially, is blogging for a paycheck. This is what I took away: Heather Armstrong enjoys what she does. The freedoms and the stresses of constantly documenting life. Oh, and she makes $40,000 a month through her blog. A month.

Guess who’s trying to horn in on Bill, Hymen, and David Lee by having an IRA named after him??? Well, not really, but the forced auto-enroll plan that is being bandied about as part of the sweeping financial services reform legislation does stand a chance to serve as a sort of legacy to BHO.  Here’s the plan in brief: If an employer has 10 or more employees and does not presently offer a retirement plan, under the Obama IRA plan all employees would be automatically enrolled in a salary-deferral