Rule number four. John Doherty, co-creator of the excellent "Bush House of Cards," suggests one more rule for reporting on sex:

I think you need to add a rule, specifically naming Republican pols (the Henry Hyde rule?) that "when a politician makes judgments on the morality of other people's sex lives, his own should be ripe for inspection to see if he himself observes the standards he promotes for others."

Right you are, John. And thus there are four.