MICHAEL BARONE: Obama Is Losing His Rock-star Status Among Young Voters.

SWIM CALL: “ARABIAN SEA (April 24, 2012) A Sailor jumps from an aircraft elevator during an all-hands swim call aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations, theater security cooperation efforts and support missions as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan P. Idle).” Cool pic.

MIGUEL OCTAVIO: Notes From A Visit To Revolutionary Venezuela. I hope he’s right about Chavez’s prospects.

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HMM: “That’s how I might expect a very far-left fringe candidate to describe our successful mission to kill the head of al Qaeda.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Tips For Online Dating Over 40.

AT AMAZON, up to 60% off on Blu-Ray.

Also, Blu-Ray releases under $10.

HMM: U.S. Amasses Stealth-Jet Armada Near Iran.

A DAN SAVAGE SCANDAL Twitter Roundup.

MARTIN ROTH: How a Misunderstanding with Instapundit Led to the First Directory of Christian Bloggers.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Does 7 Days Of Sex Really Work?

So are we back to the whole maintenance sex thing? Not quite the same.

ROLAND MARTIN MELTDOWN, DAY TWO. I’d be more interested if I’d ever seen Roland Martin.

DAVID SWINDLE ON The hatred of Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica Legacies.

NO SECRET SERVICE CAREERS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS INTERVIEW: ‘Whores’ Glory’: An Interview With Michael Glawogger. Tracy Quan talks with the maker of a “surprisingly accurate” documentary about prostitution around the world.

HOW BIG GOVERNMENT is killing California. “When you’ve lost the entrepreneurs, free-spirits, and dreamers, you’ve lost the Golden State.”

RETROSPECTIVE: L.A. riots: Good Samaritan remembers his scary truck-driver rescue.

In one of the most disturbing images from the Los Angeles riots, six black assailants dragged Reginald Denny, a 33-year-old truck driver, out of his cab in South Los Angeles and bashed his head in with a brick. A television chopper broadcast the violence live. The attack happened shortly after not-guilty verdicts were handed down in the racially charged trail of the police beating of Rodney King, which kicked off six days of rioting that left dozens dead and thousands injured.

About a mile and a half away, Titus Murphy and his then-girlfriend Terri Barnett were watching the Denny attack on live television. Murphy, who was an unemployed engineer at the time, couldn’t believe what he saw.

“When this gentleman was getting beat something was just telling me this isn’t right, this isn’t what it’s all about,” he told Yahoo News 20 years later. “When he got hit in the head with the brick something told me to go down there. I just reacted.”

Read the whole thing. But I don’t think you can blame this on a “class of have-nots.” At least, if the races were reversed, you wouldn’t be getting socioeconomic excuses.

SO I GOT AN EMAIL LAST NIGHT THAT OPENED THIS WAY: “Hello Professor (or whichever intern may be reading this).”

I don’t have any email-reading interns. (In fact, I don’t have any interns at all.) That means I miss a lot of email, since I get something like 1500 emails a day. But I prefer to miss stuff randomly rather than subject it to some sort of systematic filtering. Alas, I’ve been busier than usual these last few months, which means I’ve been an even worse correspondent than usual. Sorry! I do my best, but there’s no way I can read, much less respond to, all the email I get.

TRUE THE VOTE, DAY TWO: Breitbart Is Here.

EXPIRATION DATE, HIT: Obama yesterday: #DontDoubleMyRate; Obama today: Let the rates double!

SPEAKING TRUTH to power.

THIS WEEK IN THE FUTURE.

SIGNS OF A CULTURAL SHIFT: I got an Amazon recommendation for Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios. This disaster-prep stuff used to just be for Soldier of Fortune types. Now, it’s mainstream.

MOORE’S LAW LIVES ANOTHER DAY: “After Monday’s launch of Intel’s newest line of processors, named Ivy Bridge, Moore’s prediction is still looking sound. The chips are the first to become available from any company with features as small as 22 nanometers (the finest details on today’s chips are 32 nanometers), allowing transistors to be smaller and packed more densely. Ivy Bridge chips offer 37 percent more processing speed than the previous generation of chips, and can match their performance while using just half the energy.”

DANIEL BLATT: If It Gets Better, Then Why Is Dan Savage So Bitter?

Related: Anti-bullying hero bullies conference of school children.

UPDATE: Savage responds with non-apology.

Plus, from Ann Althouse: “My question is whether the school engages in viewpoint discrimination. Does it bring in other speakers who present other interpretations of the Bible? I doubt it.”

ED DRISCOLL: Audio Interview: Whit Stillman Discusses His Damsels In Distress.