Naturally, our first reaction to Christopher Hitchens sort-of nude photo spread in Vanity Fair is sheer disgust, which is almost immediately followed by acute and pronounced nausea. However, we quickly recover well enough to actually read the article (something about Hitch getting an "extreme makeover) which only seems to exacerbate each of our aforementioned symptoms. Fortunately, there's hope! A well-timed article in "Meet The Press" manages to take the words (though, unfortunately, not the almost-vomit) right out of our mouths.

"Screw the Kurds!" writes ETP contributor Katherine Thomson. "Hitchens describing sack-waxing sounds like the stuff on which next year's Ellie win will be founded."

Sadly, however, it turns out we'll actually have to wait for the next issue to hear about Hitchen's award-winning scrotum. Meanwhile, the piece is not without its merits. For example, the picture of a balding, pot-bellied Hitchens smoking in the shower is just about the funniest thing we've seen all week.

And to think this portly adonis once remarked that women had no sense of humor.