[Washington Times editor emeritus] Wes Pruden's take on "Weinergate":

"The columnist Christopher Hitchins tells of a Victorian custom at Oxford, surviving still, of a stretch of beach along the Thames reserved for nude male bathing by dons and clergymen. One Sunday afternoon a group of proper ladies ignored warning signs and beached t...heir little boat to the embarrassment of themselves and of rows of naked gents taking the sun. “Pairs of hands darted down to cover midsections. All but one, the hedonist and classicist Sir Maurice Bowra, whose palms went up to conceal his craggy visage . . . ‘I don’t know about you chaps,’ [he growled], ‘but I’m known by my face around here.’ “