Liveblogging-Lucy and Mark

Adam Doster

The real, in the flesh, Ms. Ledbetter just spoke. Pretty cool. This got me thinking; it's a bold move to stand against fair pay for women. Wait .. is bold the right word? (h/t Jim Halpert) To me, Mark Warner seems like an MBA professor whose class I would have skipped. But he only dipped into the Broder playbook a few times. And he delivered a few good lines, including "In four years, we will actually have an administration that believes in science." Better than excepted, me thinks. But for a keynote? There wasn't much to it.

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