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It's hot outside. You want to go home. Fair enough. As you do, check out my weekend article about the roles of the would-be GOP kingmakers in the primaries. Here's how they prove that social issues -- as long as everybody's already gotten right on them -- aren't motivators for these voters anymore. Here's what DeMint learned from his early 2007 endorsement of Mitt Romney. (Don't endorse early, or people ignore you from there on out.)
Buckingham Palace is trending as the home of the British monarchy opens for the summer and displays memorabilia from the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Law professor Jonathan Turley wrote an op ed in the New York Times yesterday asking for the right to privacy for polygamist families. He represents one, the Browns, consisting of a husband, four wives, 16 children, and the production crew of TLC who films them for the reality series Sister Wives. Turley, smartly, is not seeking to get all four “marriages” recognized; he is arguing that consenting adults have a right to form the family structure they like and that as long as there is no coercion or child abuse, being polygamists is none of the state’s business. After all, John Edwards, who made a multiple family on the sly, may be morally repugnant, but he is not in legal trouble for impregnating a woman who wasn’t his wife. Turley makes a persuasive argument, and he notes that civil liberty organizations have been reluctant to back him, probably because his cause seems to undermine the case for gay marriage. As Turley writes: “The reason might be strategic: some view the effort to decriminalize polygamy as a threat to the recognition of same-sex marriages or gay rights generally.”
Last week, New York-based blog-darling band Cults premiered the video for their summery, fuzzy song “Go Outside” on Boing Boing. The video, directed by Isaiah Seret, embeds the band members into home video footage of the Peoples Temple, the religious cult led by Jim Jones, whose voice is featured at the beginning of the song:
Read MoreKate Middleton's dress, shoes on display at Buckingham Palace--VIDEO: http://slate.me/q5BKbD via @SlateViral
Sexism is the least of Allen West's problems. http://slate.me/pr7k9M via @DoubleXMag
Witness claims at least 20 dead at youth camp outside #Oslo. Continuous updates via @Slatest: http://t.co/oNg2Vxi