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Last night on the season finale of Sister Wives, Kody married his 4th wife, Robyn. More »
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Last night on Sister Wives, Kody and his first wife, Meri, celebrated their 20th anniversary with a fancy dinner, where Meri asked, "If I were to be giving my attention to another guy, how would it make you feel?" More »
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Last night's episode of Sister Wives focused on blending the fourth wife — and her children — into Kody's family. So far we've seen how the adults are dealing — but what about the kids? More »
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As if the trainwreck of a show didn't have enough drama with the one husband/four wives/13 kids thing, this sneak peek from the upcoming episode of Sister Wives features tears over one of the wives kissing her husband. More »
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Police in Lehi, Utah are looking into the marriage of TLC star Kody Brown and his four wives. The cops admit that the show's publicity is what prompted the case. More »
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The cast of Sister Wives — which premieres Sunday, the Lord's day — were on the Today show this morning, and answered some viewer questions, including "how would you feel about bringing another husband into the family?" More »
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TLC — the network that brought you families with 8 kids, families with 19 kids, toddlers wearing lipstick and cakes shaped like Manolos — will soon air Sister Wives. Or as some are calling it, "the real Big Love." More »
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Today GMA previewed an upcoming National Geographic Channel special on a Canadian polygamist sect that's a bit different from the American variety; They've denounced Warren Jeffs, campaign for society to accept polygamy as moral lifestyle, and even tell jokes. More »
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On Tuesday, polygamist leader Warren Jeffs' lawyers asked the Utah Supreme Court to overturn his accomplice to rape conviction, arguing that he didn't know the 14-year-old girl he married to her 19-year-old cousin would be forced to have sex. [UPI] More »
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• A 20-year-old woman is seeking restitution for pornographic videos made of her when she was eight years old. The abuse was committed and filmed by her uncle, and the resulting videos became "Internet child porn classics." • More »
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This week's topic on the hidden camera series What Would You Do? was ripped from the headlines: Would people help a 15-year old girl from a polygamist sect who is being forced to marry? More »
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• The photo of a 6-year-old boy from Georgia who was kidnapped and killed last year was inadvertently used as a prop in a scene on General Hospital: Night Shift. The photo has since been edited out. • Towels "soaked" in kangaroo pee are being hung around a Canadian town in hopes of luring a missing wallaby back to its pen. • A soup kitchen for the dogs of the homeless or unemployed has opened in Berlin. • A new study suggests that boys whose mothers drank lightly (2 units a week) during pregnancy were less likely to be hyperactive or have conduct problems. • More »
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After an exhaustive slew of child custody proceedings with the children from the polygamist Yearning For Zion ranch, the state of Texas has determined that eight of the over four hundred children from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints enclave should be put in foster care. According to the AP the state reportedly wants these eight children, ranging in age from 5 to 17, in foster care "because their mothers allegedly have refused to limit their contact with men accused of being involved in underage marriages." FLDS brass says that this potential ruling is further religious persecution. Sect spokesman Rod Parker says that the issue is "whether the children are in any immediate danger simply because their parents choose to raise them in this religion... The substance of what they're doing here is fundamentally the same." [AP via CBS News] More »
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Teresa Jeffs (not pictured here), the 16-year-old daughter of deposed Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints prophet and convicted sex offender Warren Jeffs, is denying that she was sexually abused, and she is speaking out against her court-appointed lawyer, Natalie Malonis. Malonis filed an emergency restraining order against church elder Willie Jessop on Friday, insisting that Jessop was influencing her client. Friday's motion alleged that Jessop has a history of tampering with FLDS witnesses as he "attempted to intimidate witness Elissa Wall during Jeffs' trial last year." Wall testified against Warren Jeffs in the case that sent him to federal prison on two counts of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a then-14-year-old Elissa into a spiritual marriage with her 19-year-old cousin. Teresa has also been barred from speaking to her father, though this is common practice with parents who are convicted sex offenders. On Sunday, Teresa sent an email correspondence she had with Malonis to the Salt Lake Tribune. More »
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What is going on here? Is Al Qaeda really internally imploding while this guy is still in office? What did the Mormon mind control pedophiles do to warrant getting their kids back? What the fuck is Condi Rice doing with KISS? What does Peggy Noonan make of Scott McClellan? Is Scott McClellan crushing on Obama? What's a cluster bomb and why don't we ban them? What really happened with Bear Stearns? Megan and I try to answer these questions in spite of the fact we can BARELY FORM THOUGHTS amidst all this restless Carriemania, after the jump. More »
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Sure, there are the sex beds and the surveillance towers and the hairdos and the unprecedented rate of birth defects, but at the end of the day, I am a nerd and the biggest source of curiosity regarding the members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints is where they get their money and how they are using it. So thank you, Portfolio for your May story about the accountant appointed by the state of Utah to manage the $110 million Pederasty Economy. Bruce Wisan was appointed to privatize the property once controlled by Warren Jeffs, who was a destructive lunatic who played a sort of Stalin to his dad's Lenin. Jeffs would order grain elevators dismantled in the middle of the night; if he decided to purge a man from the community — which happened often when that man coveted one of the others' wives or houses — he trained teams to "move a house in less than an hour." More »
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This Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints situation is turning into a fucking fiasco. The latest out of Texas is that state officials have taken custody of a baby boy just born to one of the teenagers currently under their purview. This is the girl's second child, and officials believe her to be 15 or 16, even though she claims to be 18. The father of the child, Jackson Jessop, is 22, and his whereabouts are unknown. [CBS] More »
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We've heard a lot about the possible mistreatment of girls in the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints community, but reports are just beginning to emerge about the sexual abuse of young boys as well. Texas officials are investigating the boys taken from the Yearning For Zion compound after "interviews and journal entries suggested young boys may have been sexually abused," reports USA Today. Many of the boys also have broken bones, but doctors who examined the children said the injuries were from minor accidents and did not indicate a parental harm. FLDS spokesman Rod Parker told the AP, "Probably over 90% of the injuries are forearm fractures from ground-level or low level falls... I can also tell you that we don't live in a community where there is a pattern of abuse." [USA Today] More »
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The number of Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints in Texas custody has now reached 460, following the state's decision yesterday that 25 mothers under the age of 18 should not be returned to the FDLS compound, Yearning For Zion. As previously reported, Texas officials raided the YFZ ranch after a tip — allegedly from a 16-year-old inside the compound named Sarah Jessop Barlow — regarding widespread child abuse. Although Sarah has yet to be located (and some believe that "Sarah" is really Rozita Swinton, a pathological liar with an FDLS obsession), Reuters reports that "Texas welfare and law enforcement officials say they have uncovered evidence of widespread child abuse on the grounds, with adolescent girls being forced into unions with much older men." Mothers over the age of 18 were sent home yesterday from the temporary shelter where their children are being held. More »
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More polygamist news! About 100 of the of the 437 children taken from the Yearning for Zion FLDS compound in Texas earlier this month have been put into foster care. Members of the FLDS are criticizing the transfer, saying it was done without prior notice to the families. Currently, the children are being tested to see who their biological parents are. Church members have also set up a website (uh, is that allowed?) with photos of damages (a few broken doorknobs and an unopened plastic bin) and are asking for donations. Don't save Darfur, save oppressive religious fundamentalists! [CNN & Captive FLDS Children] More »
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• Fabulous CNN reporter Richard Quest (my pretend British boyfriend), was picked up early this morning in Central Park and charged with possessing meth. Oh, Richard. You already overcame the hazards of British dentistry once, why would you risk your teeth again? [NY Times]

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Slate did the universe a service (yet again!) and read the memoir of a "fourth wife" in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints so we wouldn't have to puke all over the outfit we never took off after getting in last night. In summary, Carolyn Jessop was forced in her teens to marry a 50-year-old named Merril (though never forced to see him naked) who once became outraged when she ordered shrimp at a restaurant because he didn't like it, and wives should never like things their husbands don't. (Interesting philosophy!) They attended "public" schools staffed for and by Fundamentalists which taught children that dinosaurs and walking on the moon were lies. They reared their kids on spooky apocalyptic cowboy-indian games that underscored their belonging in a Master Race. One woman's childbirth involved being "given an episiotomy with sewing scissors and then stitched up with dental floss." More »
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• Hot new trend: polygamist pastels? Yeah, whatever.• Facials that involve steam and extractions are bad for your skin. • NPR's "Fresh Air" host, Terry Gross, once got fired from a job as an inner-city school teacher. • Indigenous girls in Australia were forced to get contraceptive implants when they were as young as 12 years old. • The late Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop donated her entire fortune to charity. • Matthew Shepard's mother continues to campaign for gay rights. • Battered women get a "Princess Day to rebuild self-esteem. • The chief of police in Tehran was jailed after found nude with six women in a brothel raid. • In 5 years, scientists may be able to grow sperm from skin cells. • Stellamaris Mulaeh, a young Kenyan, tries to resolve ethnic divisions in her country. • Guards at an O.C. jail tased a cat to death. • Men are more likely than women to have mild cognitive impairment. • Adorable Iowans pull prank on neighbor's lawn and promise to help clean it up! More »
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The latest charming detail to emerge from the Texas Church of Latter-Day Old Fuckers Who Prey On Tweens: the "Sex Temple." (Not to be confused with the surveillance tower guarding the Sex Temple.) Click the pic to read two of the creepiest sections of the search warrant. [The Smoking Gun] More »
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• The McCain strategist who thought it was a brilliant idea to have him give a speech at the Lorraine Motel on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination to apologize for having voted against MLK Day should probably not keep his job. [CBS News]

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