Radley Balko | January 7, 2009
TMZ reports that porn moguls Joe Francis and Larry Flynt are asking the government for a $5 billion bailout, citing a 22 percent drop in DVD sales last year.
I'd guess that has more to do with the abundance of free porn on the Internet than the credit crunch.
In any case, I will now take this opportunity to open the comments section to bad puns incorporating pornography and Congressional bailouts.
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