(BTW, how's that for humiliation: having your marital sex life, or lack of same, discussed by the international press?)

I had two reactions to this: a) seems par for the course these days b) I guess it could be worse, it could be Marie Antoinette's marital sex life discussed by the international press? (Which I assume it wasn't.)

Johnson leaves you with the impression that he gained the money by taxing his poor subjects and never did anything with it but bath in it like Scrooge McDuck.

Heeeeeee! I laughed :D