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Cheaters, Fighters, and the Country-Club Set: A Q&A With Lois Smith Brady, ‘Vows’ Columnist

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ISSUE 37 / 2007: MATRIX P.98

With the commencement of Memorial Day, weddings season is officially upon us. Last weekend, the "Vows" column, a weekly feature within the "Weddings and Celebrations" announcements section of the New York Times, celebrated its twentieth anniversary; longtime "Vows" writer Lois Smith Brady offered up a lovely catchup with several memorable couples from that first year, 1992. We were curious to hear more meditations on marriage and covering the wedding beat from Brady, so we called her up to chat. Below, her favorite couple, her beef with Greenwich, and why she thinks people want to be in "Vows." (It's not just narcissism!)

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South Dakota’s Jeff Barth on His Viral Campaign Ad, Riding Animals, and Chess

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Yesterday, the Internet met — and kind of fell in love with — Jeff Barth, the commissioner of South Dakota's Minnehaha County and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for South Dakota's lone, at-large congressional seat, which is currently occupied by freshman Republican Kristi Noem. Barth's five-minute web ad is charmingly low-budget yet totally surreal: While walking along a forest path, the would-be congressman regales us with odd factoids about his life — he learned chess in Iceland, once rode an ostrich, and raised daughters with straight teeth — supplemented by props placed strategically along the trail and a few computer-generated graphics. We talked to Barth by phone today about the strategy behind the ad, which other animals he'd like to ride, and chess.

"I suppose I wouldn't mind riding a camel." »

George Zimmerman Might Have Incriminated Himself

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Murder suspect George Zimmerman looks on during a bond hearing in Sanford, Florida, in this still image taken from video April 20, 2012. Zimmerman surrendered his passport to a Florida court on Friday during a bail hearing over the shooting death of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, a case that has captivated the United States and prompted civil rights demonstrations around the country. REUTERS/Pool (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW)

Both sides in the forthcoming second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman are moving to temporarily suppress statements he made to police after the shooting of Trayvon Martin, some of which may be problematic for his defense. "Defendant has provided law enforcement with numerous statements, some of which are contradictory, and are inconsistent with the physical evidence and statements of witnesses," the prosecution said in a filing yesterday, alleging that Zimmerman's account "in conjunction with other statements and evidence help to establish defendant's guilt in this case." 

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John Edwards Is ‘Flirting’ With a Female Juror

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John Edwards is currently on trial for misuse of presidential campaign funds, which he allegedly spent on his mistress, Rielle Hunter, while his wife was ill with the cancer that would eventually take her life. It is scandal of the highest caliber possible, and we would have said that even before reading this report from an ABC newsman covering the trial.

Since the alternates were identified last Thursday, it has been impossible to ignore the dynamic between Edwards and one of the female alternates, an attractive young woman with jet-black hair, who seems to have been flirting with Edwards for days.

The juror clearly instigated the exchanges. She smiles at him. He smiles at her. She giggles. He blushes.

The flirtation has become so obvious that even Edwards’ attorneys have to work to suppress their laughter at the absurdity of it all.

Our only questions: How soon will someone make an opera about all this? And can it be R. Kelly, please?

Romney’s Big Fat Wet Kiss to Keynesian Economics

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The real news in Mitt Romney’s interview with Mark Halperin, as Charles Pierce points out, is that Romney openly repudiated the central argument his party has been making against President Obama for the last three years: that he spent too much money and therefore deepened the economic crisis. Indeed Romney himself had been making this very case as recently as a week ago (“he bailed out the public sector, gave billions of dollars to the companies of his friends, and added almost as much debt as all the prior presidents combined. The consequence is that we are enduring the most tepid recovery in modern history.”) But in his Halperin interview, Romney frankly admits that reducing the budget deficit in the midst of an economic crisis would be a horrible idea:

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How Much Longer Can Mitt Romney and Donald Trump Stay Pals?

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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 20: Donald Trump attends the "Celebrity Apprentice" Live Finale at American Museum of Natural History on May 20, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images)

The political alliance between Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, consummated in February with a very awkward handshake, is about to get even closer. Romney is headed to Las Vegas on Tuesday for a Trump-hosted fund-raiser, the campaign is holding a fund-raising lottery for the chance to eat dinner with Trump (possibly at Famous Famiglia), and Trump is thinking about forming his own Romney-supporting super-PAC. Clearly, Trump is good for Romney's bank account. But he also remains, to this day, a very confident, very unapologetic, very embarrassing birther:

"Give me a break." »

Aspiring Start-up Dude Spent Two Months Secretly Living on AOL’s Amenities

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PALO ALTO, CA - FEBRUARY 07: The AOL logo is posted on a sign in front of the AOL Inc. offices on February 7, 2011 in Palo Alto, California. Online company AOL Inc. announced today that it is purchasing online news website Huffington Post for $315 million. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Eric Simons, a 19-year-old tech entrepreneur in the making, is really about that start-up life, taking the Moutain Dew and ramen cliché to the next level by living full-time at AOL's Palo Alto campus, despite not working for the company. "They had a gym there with showers," Simons explained to CNET. "I'd take a shower after work. I was like, 'I could totally work here ... They have food upstairs, they have every drink on tap. This would be a sweet place to live.'" He had a building ID from a program he participated in at the company headquarters, and to everyone around the office, he just looked like a really hard worker.

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