Fantasy sports generates an estimated $2 billion per year. Some 30 million people play. There’s a television show — FX’s The League — created by a former Seinfeld writer and Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer, based on a group of friends in the same fantasy football league. There are magazines, websites, and podcasts dedicated to the game. Matthew Berry, ESPN’s senior director of fantasy sports, has over 300,000 twitter followers. He hosts a fantasy show on ESPN2 every Sunday. MLB Network has their own fantasy show (The Fantasy 411) that airs daily during the baseball season. Need more proof of its size? According to USA Today‘s Fredreka Schouten, fantasy sports now has its own lobbyist, a man named Travis McCoy. And it was revealed on Thursday that he hasn’t been incredibly busy, as the lobby has only spent $6,000 since May.

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“The more things change, the more they stay the same” is a refrain that’s comforting to turn to, because it tells us that there’s a pattern and a precedent to all things; there exists some sort of blueprint for us if only we take a moment to look at history. That’s an idea Elizabeth Warren, who served as Special Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, seemed to echo when speaking to Dan Rather back in 2009. Now, her words take on additional relevance as the Occupy Wall Street protests continue to spread across different U.S. cities.

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In an interesting move for someone who has previously tried to affirm his heterosexuality (yet a fairly expected one for someone who is now being called a gay icon), Illinois Representative Aaron Schock, with his camera-ready smile and infamous physique, showed up on the Bravo channel last night.

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Yesterday, Mediaite offered a sneak peek at Fox News’ Griff Jenkins ambushing controversial Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fl) outside his office. The first thing I thought when I saw this was that Grayson’s repeated demands that Jenkins make an appointment constituted some particularly weak sauce. On last night’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly and Jenkins called Grayson out for hiding behind his press flack, and I couldn’t agree more.