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By: phillip

phillip — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:25:59 +0000

awww eugene got a crush on claire

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By: Sonicfrog

Sonicfrog — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:00:37 +0000

Kind of off-topic, but kind of not. As many of you know Carrie Prejean has been hitting the talk show circuit to not-talk about the reason why her breach of contract lawsuit against the Miss California Pageant was hastily settled by her side due to an "opsie" in her past. She got all flustered because she went on Larry King and he tried to ask her about it. Someone please clarify. If you're suing someone for breach of contract, and it turns out you were the one who breached the contract for making a nude video, wouldn't the settlement stipulate that the other side can't talk about the embarrassing vid, not you? Isn't it assumed that you wouldn't talk about it because it makes you look bad? Why would you put language in a settlement that restricts you from talking about something you don't want to talk about anyway.

By: Sakeneko

Sakeneko — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:43:01 +0000

I’m not exactly qualified to comment on any woman’s “babe quality” (I’m female and straight), but comparing Claire’s *writing* to that Coulter is a completely gratuitous insult to her. That article was delightful. I’m going to buy a couple of her books and fully expect them to be good. ;-)

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:10:09 +0000

Looking at the pic at her site, comparing her to Ann is an insult to Claire.

By: tamerlane

tamerlane — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:10:22 +0000

At last, competition for Ann Coulter in the conservative babes department.

By: G. Shapiro

G. Shapiro — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:55:02 +0000

Perhaps the most amusing part of the story is the idea that anyone would consider Emin Boztepe the deadliest man in the world. The man had a notorious feud with the Gracies in the 1990s in which he denounced brazilian jiu-jitsu and the UFC as fake and touted the superiority of wing-tsun. He set up various score-settling matches with the Gracies surrounded by much hoop-la only to back out of every single one of them. He is known as one of the biggest frauds in the martial arts world.

By: Valentino Rossi

Valentino Rossi — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:32:04 +0000

Fedor Emelianenko

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:24:35 +0000

The Penthouse association has 2 degrees of appropriateness.

By: A. Zarkov

A. Zarkov — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:13:04 +0000

Most everyone with any historical literacy (alas a shrinking fraction of population) has heard of the Punic Wars-- a collection of wars between Rome and Carthage 264-146 BC. But how many have heard about the Pubic Wars? The escalating rivalry between Penthouse Magazine and Playboy Magazine where each magazine would try to one-up the other without crossing some imagined "line of decency." A real arms race, well not really arms..

By: Off Kilter

Off Kilter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:09:16 +0000

Congratulations. Volokh Conspiracy is now the #2 hit if you Google “Penthouse Letters” and sort by date…