Donald Trump Used to Say, Legalize ALL the Drugs—But Not as GOP Front-Runner: The irony is, the old Trump was more in tune with today…. (The Daily Beast)

Chris Christie Booed at Some Horse Racing Event: Okay, okay, it’s called the Haskell International. Remember when “President Christie” seemed like it might be a thing? That was a loooooong time ago. (Huffington Post)

Climate Change Activists Punk Scott Walker with Huge Fake Koch Bros. Check in NH: Click through to see a fantastic picture of Walker posing with them, utterly unaware that the check is a dig against him. (Washington Post)

Jeb Bush Goes After Low-Hanging Fruit in Attacking Lazy Members of Congress: Weirdly, the YouTube spot has gotten virtually no traction thus far. (Kevin Drum/Mother Jones)

Ted Cruz Cooks Bacon with his Gun: Ah, but can he do sausage links? In this YouTube video, the Smarmiest Man Alive makes a bid to be the GOP’s true “red meat” candidate.

John Roberts Has Been Trying to Gut the Voting Rights Act for Decades: Ironically, he is Chief Justice in part because of the voting rights travesty that is Bush v. Gore. (Scott Lemieux/The Week)

The Declining Marginal Value of Crazy: The usual GOP nut cases just can’t compete with Trump’s incredibly effective, incredibly authentic-sounding, non-Beltway version of the gaga. (Josh Marshall/TPM)

Rand Paul and the Scarlet “I”: Paul sold out his iconoclasm to become the GOP’s darling, and ended up alienating everyone. Now, in the hawkish Republican Party, he’s looking to make some waves with Isolationism with a capital I. (Ed Kilgore/Washington Monthly)

Friends Of Starbucks’ CEO Want Him to Run Against Hillary: Just like your local barista, make sure you spell his name right when you write him in on your primary ballot—H-O-W-A-R-D S-C-H-U-L-T-Z. (Time)

New Hendrix Documentary Focuses on 1970 Atlanta Concert: If you have Showtime, you’ll be able to watch it starting September 5. (Rolling Stone)

Washington, D.C., Deserves to Be a State (or at least Have Full Representation in Congress): John Oliver makes the case—very persuasively. (Last Week Tonight)

Are Royal Trux Reuniting? And more to the point, would anyone care if they did? (Pitchfork)

Wal-Mart, Amazon Pull Toy Guns From New York Shelves: Sounds good to us. (Newsweek)

Clueless KKK Member Confronted for Wearing FUBU Sneakers: FUBU stands for “For Us, By Us”—it’s a group founded by African-American entrepreneurs to empower the African-American community (The Raw Story)

Check out that KKK guy’s sneaker game here: