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PR PRIMER: Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, is of Puerto Rican heritage. This prompts Slate to put together a brief history of the island's status as a US commonwealth.
SPEAKING OF SOTOMAYOR: Conservatives won't stop calling her a racist, despite the risk they run of alienating Latino and female voters. Jeffrey Wells compares the commentators to Robert Downey, Jr., at his most self-destructive.
SPEAKING OF SELF-DESTRUCTIVE: Drew Peterson calls in to Mancow's show--from prison, no less--to crack some terrible jokes [via Gapers Block].
SPEAKING OF MANCOW: Gawker investigates whether he faked his on-air waterboarding [via the Reader's Twitter page].
SPEAKING OF LIQUIDS: The hilarious Lucy Knisley abstains from solid food for a week, draws a comic about it.
SPEAKING OF HILARIOUS: Two young conservatives aim for funny, but hit excruciating, when they try to rap.
SPEAKING OF GROTESQUERIES: Basil Wolverton's Bible illustrations capture the Old Testament's unsettling weirdness and gore.
SPEAKING OF GORE: Gen. Petraeus talks with FOX News about Gitmo and torture (he's against both).
AND SPEAKING OF TORTURE: In this week's Chicago Reader, I review Curious Theatre Branch's The Caretaker.
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