Pete Seeger: The great folk singer Pete Seeger, leader of the folk revival and an agent for social change, has died at age 94 in New York. He sang and played guitar and banjo everywhere from labor rallies to college campuses. He sang at anti-war demonstrations and civil rights marches. It was Seeger who adapted “We Shall Overcome” from an old spiritual.  During the McCarthy Era, he was blacklisted and indicted for contempt of Congress. Seeger was a prolific songwriter who wrote some of the anthems of folk including, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”, “If I Had a Hammer”, and “Turn! Turn! Turn!”

Digi-Money: The CEO of an exchange for the digital currency bitcoin has been charged with money laundering and performing unlicensed money transfers in cooperation with Silk Road, the online drug market, according to a statement from federal prosecutors Monday. Bitcoins are increasingly being accepted as payment for things like online shopping, but they are a natural for gambling and trade in illicit goods.

Ukraine: The prime minister and entire cabinet have resigned amidst continuing government protests. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov had offered to step down as prime minister to create “social and political compromise”. The move came after parliament threw out an anti-protest law.

Nyet: The mayor of Sochi, Russia, home to the Winter Olympics, says there are no gay people in his city of  343,000 people. Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov told the BBC, “it’s not accepted here in the Caucasus where we live. We do not have them in our city.” Among the many controversies of the Sochi Olympics is Russia’s hostility to homosexuality. The BBC reporter who interviewed Mayor Pakhomov says he visited a gay bar the night before he met the mayor.

Nation: Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.), who pleaded guilty following his arrest last fall for cocaine possession, resigned from Congress yesterday. Radel went to rehab for drug and alcohol abuse, but was unable to rehabilitate his political reputation. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Radel said, “I cannot fully and effectively serve as a United States Representative to the place I love and call home, Southwest Florida.”

>President Obama delivers his State of the Union address tonight. He plans to declare a $10.10 minimum wage under new federal contracts.

Hello, He Lied: The California Supreme Court has denied a law license to Stephen Glass, the former reporter famously turned out of journalism when it was discovered in 1998 that he faked stories for The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Glass, now 41, challenged the ruling of the California Bar that he was morally unfit to be a lawyer. The bar examiners said Glass was “a pervasive and documented liar.”

The Obit Page: Eric Lawson, the ruggedly handsome guy who played the Marlboro man in the late 1970s has died at age 72. A smoker since he was a teenager, Lawson developed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The one-time poster boy for cigarettes once appeared in an anti-smoking spot, but never really quit himself. He died, basically, of smoking.

Manscaping: Gillette is introducing a new razor designed for men to shave their body hair. Their tagline: “The first razor built for the male terrain.” The razor company is reacting to a market in which more men are growing facial hair and removing the foliage from other parts of their body.  Gillette says nearly 30 percent of men have shaved below the neck in the past year, although how far below, they didn’t say.

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