Sorry I’ve been light on posts today; I’ll make up for it tomorrow. My defense is that it was a really, really dull news day. Here’s your front, such as it is:

1. Goldman Officials Defend Actions in Faceoff With Senators — Yes, it’s that slow a news day. Very, very small, one-column lede. Although you might get some enjoyment from the fact that the WSJ headline was that Goldman defended themselves, and the NYT hed said the senators put them on defensive. FYI, NPR went more or less the same way as WSJ, as did the WashPost. Look, I’m trying to make this deadly dull story as much fun as I can.
2. Venezuela’s Chavez Tightens Grip On Judiciary — More shenanigans from this hemisphere’s favorite Maoist.
3. Greek bonds rated ‘junk’ by Standard & Poor’s — And world markets take a hit as a result.
4. Bernanke Urges Deficit-Cutting — I know, I know — more deadly dull money news. I’m sorry; this is what we have today. I’ll try to do something about it…
5. Do Boobs Cause Earthquakes? — See what I came up with for you? What? Hey, this is serious stuff. It has to do with the never-ending debate between science and faith. I think, in this case, the boobs are on the side of science.
6. Strict Abortion Measures Enacted in Oklahoma — Normally I would never, ever put some other state’s Kulturkampf — which has nothing to do with us — on our front. But all that seems to be happening locally (going by thestate.com) is a bunch of crime news, such as this and this and this, and Steve Spurrier playing golf. No, really. By the way, SC lawmakers couldn’t even get a quorum to do their own Kulturkampf deal on abortion. How lame is that?

Gina Smith was covering a debate over in the House about letting charter school kids do extracurricular activities, but nothing had happened on it, and frankly, that’s not much more interesting than any of the stuff above.