Today is awesome because it's all about equality. Not only are we celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, and the election of Michelle Bachelets, as Chile's first female president, but Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has just been sworn in as Liberia's new president as well.

As Africa welcomes it's first elected female head of state, what is America doing? Bitching about how there aren't any more men on TV as news anchors, of course.

You don't have to decode statistics, though, to see the evidence. At the highest levels — network news — TV executives have had a hard time finding anchormen with star potential to replace Dan Rather and Peter Jennings. At CBS, Bob Schieffer has stayed far longer at "CBS Evening News" than expected, while Katie Couric reportedly mulls a whopping offer to take the seat permanently. Where Jennings once reigned alone at ABC's "World News Tonight," Elizabeth Vargas now shares anchor duties with Bob Woodruff.

Evidence? Is being a female news anchor a crime now? Oh, wait, it's Ok, men are being encouraged to be rocket scientists and stuff, so we can keep not paying women to put on make-up and pretend to be adults.

Thank you, Boston Globe, for showing us that America is such a progressive country.

New leader's pledge: Unite Liberia [CNN]
The vanishing anchorman [Suzanne C. Ryan, Boston Globe]