Once a slut, always a slut. Classic.

Meanwhile, a judge in Los Angles has thrown out Spears' lawsuit against Us Weekly, ruling the pop star cannot be defamed by published rumors that she and Federline had made a sex tape and were worried about its release.

Superior Court Judge Lisa Hart Cole said Spears has "put her modern sexuality squarely, and profitably, before the public eye" and it would be unlikely for the magazine article to be found defamatory.

The judge's decision to dismiss the $10 million lawsuit filed last year did not address whether the October 2005 story was true or false.

"The issue is whether it is defamatory to state that a husband and wife taped themselves engaging in consensual sex," Cole wrote in the decision issued last week. "The backdrop against which this issue must be addressed is that the plaintiff has publicly portrayed herself in a sexual way in her performances, in published photographs and in a reality show."

Oddly enough - Spears and her husband just announced their divorce.  Didn't see that coming.  Not.

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Tomorrow afternoon, Mercury will cross the face of the sun.  But don't look at it, or you'll go blind or something.  I wonder if it can be seen against a relatively safe-to-look-at sunset sun.