We were all set to pay rapt attention to Serious Things going on in our country, like Sonia Sotomayor‘s Supreme Court confirmation hearings and Obama’s appointment of Regina Benjamin as surgeon general.

But then Tony Romo dumped Jessica Simpson right before her Barbie-and-Ken birthday party and we got….distracted.

If you missed it the first time around, here’s what The Frisky was talking about this week.

The deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett kept us, sadly, preoccupied this week—but this is The Frisky, so we still found some time to have fun, too! If you missed it the first time around, here’s what we were talking about.

• Meghan McCain wanted us to forgive Governor Mark Sanford. We wanted Meghan McCain to go away.
• We were horrified by Michael Jackson’s autopsy results.
• We wondered if a Dutch animal rights group went too far with an ad that clubbed and stripped a fetish model, like an animal.
• We noodled over the ethical qualms of paying drug addicts $300 take birth control or undergo sterilization.
• We laughed at parents who write about their baby’s bowel movements on Facebook.

What with Chris Brown being a physically abusive DB and the Gosselins splitting up, but still staying on TV, we had plenty to natter on about this week. So if you missed it the first time around, here’s what The Friksy was talking about.

• We debated whether Chris Brown’s punishment fit the crime. (It didn’t.)
• And then we envied Rihanna’s classy courtroom outfit.
• We wildly speculated—even though we seriously don’t care anymore—about what Jon and Kate Gosselin’s “big announcement” might be.
• We told Bacardi Breezer their “ugly girlfriend” ads are sexist and unfunny.