So much to get to here, not sure quite where to begin. Chris Napolitano, Playboy’s editorial director — a Hefner lifer, if you will – via the New York Times‘ recently purchased Freakonomics blog:

“Tagging Playboy’s relevancy to its financial position is a sucker bet for an editor (mainly because we play by different rules). Still, if it’s my only cross to bear, I’ll take it. I work at a public company with sterling accounting ethics, and the magazine has spun off divisions that generate revenue that could arguably belong to the magazine’s bottom line at a private company. Then there’s the overworked word: pornography. Anyone who thinks the photos in Playboy are pornographic should relinquish their membership cards to the Met.”

The whole thing is a must-read. Check it out here …