Best in Blog: 29 May 2009

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Little green monkey podcasts, National Fist Bump Day celebrations, and Liz Cheney’s epic FAIL: Yep! Friday frolicking won the day here at MoJo. But of course it can’t all be fun and gay marriage. This week’s torture puzzler: If American brass soldiers* raped detainees, why aren’t we prosecuting? Why does Grover Norquist like Judge Sotomayor so much, anyway? And when can we move into Tom Friedman‘s special world?

One question we can answer? Where your Snuggie will be in 10 years.

Plus: Mary Roach’s TEDTalk on ’10 Things You Didn’t Know About Orgasms’ is mad excellent, our DC crew explains how America’s anti-piracy point man is battling Somali scallywags, and hey look! Border patrol’s fun for kids, too!

*Corrected. Thanks, Shane.

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