New personal bests tonight on the one-hand and two-hand deadlift on the Plateau Buster handle:  310# with the right hand (failed at 300# with the left); and 520# two-handed, first attempt after successful 500# lift. I did 5 sets x10 of 300# swings to warm up.    

…but I wanted to leave you with this:  at a $50K per plate fundraiser on Sunday, Mitt Romney told the rest of the “severe conservatives” supporting him that he’s already got the “true believers” — that is, those who watch FOXNews, according to Romney’s characterization — and now we need to move beyond them and concentrate on bringing in the “women” and the “independents” (who are, apparently, necessarily separate species).

And yet, Fluke doesn’t argue that the government should be promoting abstinence as a form of preventive care — just that it should provide for both the cake and the eating. Imagine!

For those who follow such things: An attorney representing Barack Obama has argued in court to prevent the long-form birth certificate image that was released by the White House nearly a year ago from being placed into evidence. It was on April 10 at a three-hour eligibility hearing before a New Jersey administrative law judge that the argument came from Alexandra Hill. She is legal counsel representing Obama’s re-election campaign,

In the wake of Whistleblower Susan Brita’s testimony, Rep John Mica discusses the White House’s role in keeping the scandal quiet. “Journalist” Soledad O’Brien reacts with barely concealed contempt that this Republican would accuse the Greatest and Most Transparent Administration in the History of Ever of engaging in some sort of cover up. — That being something completely beyond the realm of possibility, evidently. Anyone who believes we live in