Say what you will about GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, one thing is clear: He’s no Michelle Obama. An Internet search about the first lady’s thesis at Princeton—a passionate study of being black at an Ivy League university—turns up 30 times as many results as a search about McDonnell’s thesis at Regent University. Of course, she was the subject of national scrutiny, while McDonnell’s thesis holds little interest outside the commonwealth.

Chesterfield County Circuit Court Clerk Judy L. Worthington is suing the chief Circuit Court judge in a turf spat, among other things, over the county’s Web site. Worthington complains that in November, Judge Michael C. Allen issued an order authorizing lawyer Aubrey M. Davis Jr. to perform marriages. The order directed that Davis’ name be added to a list of people authorized to do so on the clerk’s page of the county Web site.