Today’s Wake-Up Call:

• Even though he is “alive and well,” Wikipedia accidentally listed Sen. Robert Byrd‘s (D-WV) “death date” as 1/20/09 for “about four minutes” on 1/20 (The Daily Mail).
• NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell appears to be “secretly a gay icon,” because she’s just “so sassy” (“Daily Intel“).
• Before Gillibrand’s swearing-in yesterday, VP Biden “greeted her nieces and nephews with high fives and ‘hey, man’ and ‘hi, cuz’” — “eliciting puzzled looks from the under-10 set” (New York Times).
• Conan O’Brien, on Blagojevich comparing himself to Nelson Mandela: “Which may be a stretch, but at least he got the prison part right” (“Late Night”).
• “Two. … It’s pretty bad! … Two-and-a-half, three because I have two beautiful daughters, and I love them to death. And I love my wife. Five. … Try four” — Blagojevich, asked how his life ranks on a scale of 1-10 (“On the Record”).