Every American must do his duty to restore the goodwill and love of our European friends.

Yes, campers, there will be life after George Bush!

The birds will again sing. The gloryholes will open. The baths will gush forth. San Francisco will become affordable. And Cher will make a comeback.

All will be right again in this crazy ol’ world of ours.

One American — and oh, we applaud him — is leading the way.

One American, unknown and unsung. And completely undressed.

May he not be too far ahead of his time!

First Germany, tomorrow the world!

From Reuters:

BERLIN (Reuters) - A naked American tourist raised eyebrows when he went for a walk through a German city and told police he thought this was acceptable behavior in Germany.

“We have been having unusually hot weather here lately but, all the same, we can’t have this,” a spokesman for police in the southern city of Nuremberg said Tuesday.

“The man said he thought walking around naked was tolerated in Germany.”

Many Germans enjoy nude sunbathing which is allowed in public parks. The 41-year-old was carrying his clothes in a bag when police stopped him Monday evening after complaints from pedestrians.

The tourist was not under the influence of drugs, said police. They made him get dressed and pay a 200 euro ($269) deposit pending his investigation for indecent behavior.

“… The tourist was not under the influence of drugs, said police…”

Of course not! He was just showing off what so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming. Just trying to undo six years of Bush “diplomacy.” And in the process, in his own special way, become very popular very quickly.

…he thought walking around naked was tolerated in Germany…

Well, yes — we Yanks are famously oblivious to the world outside our ocean borders. Iran, Iraq — it’s all Arabic to us. Similarly, Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic.

Prague, the new capitol of gay porn with its many “hunks of uncut Eastern European flesh,” (to quote our favorite wire service, the all-porn Fleshbot), Prague that has given us superstars with names that are clotted “clusters of impenetrable consonants … the Arpads and Tamases and Csabas and Attilas and Istvans” — Americans, please note — Prague is not Germany! (At right, a man of the Eastern Bloc featured on these pages.)

“…We have been having unusually hot weather here lately but, all the same …”

O say does that star-spangled yingyang still wave! Wave on, young American diplomat, wave on.