Slate's Emily Bazelon explores Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law in greater detail.
Roger Ebert reviews The Hunger Games.
Mitt Romney: the most unpopular (likely) presidential nominee of all time.
The lesson of this is that Barack Obama's position on gay marrige is a transparent political ploy that gets more insulting as time goes on and the public changes its mood.
This is the viral video of the morning, and it's pretty hilarious:
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