In an article entitled "I Wore Shorts to Work, and They All Laughed" in yesterday's New York Times, Eric Wilson ponders the age-old question: namely, why is it that women get to wear skirts when it's hot, while men still have to wear suits?

After a rash of record temperatures on the East Coast (thank you, Al Gore!), male executives have been pointing out the inequality that their female counterparts get to wear sleeveless loose tops and open-toed shoes, while businessmen have to bunker down in full suits, socks, shoes that don't breathe and, yes, ties.

Is this fair? No. I absolutely mean that.

Yet I also mean it when I say that a grown man in shorts looks an awful lot like a cub scout going to a jamboree.