After months of confounding his critics by "becoming boring" - so boring that more than one million Londoners voted for him to become mayor - Boris Johnson's mischievous side is back.
When the earthquake hit Sichuan province in western China, Matt Ryan, a caving expert from Newcastle upon Tyne, was drinking a cup of tea on the balcony of his mountaineering shop in the capital Chengdu.
History, I suspect, will look back on the past six months as an example of America going through one of its collectively deranged episodes - rather like Prohibition from 1920-33, or McCarthyism some 30 years later. This time it is gloating, unshackled sexism of the ugliest kind.
A glimpse of life inside Avraham Cohen's group may lie in accounts on file at the Shawano County Sheriff's Department, as told by people who grew up as the so-called "true disciples".
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