Lifestyles of the rich and polygamous

Here's a good example of why the NYT is bleeding readers faster than a beheading.  Discussing His Highness Prince Mohammed al Mahktoum's 'junior' wife (everybody in Dubai says the HH piece when in front of other people, it's weird).   From Commentary, money graf:

The disconnect between the princess’s emancipated life with the patriarchal nature of her marriage is, no doubt, a complicated subject. But this is the same newspaper that reports about American polygamy as a freak show fraught with abuse of both women and children. Yet when confronted with “Big Love” Arab potentates and their trophy second wives who engage in a practice that most Americans rightly consider odious, the Times is prepared to bow and scrape like any courtier.

For our technocratic elites, monogamy is for the little people.  So, evidently, is meritocracy.  Bow, scrape, bow, scrape give a little kick!