Let me start this week’s column by applauding the US men’s gymnastic team.  Now, I’m not applauding them for any professional achievement.  I’m applauding them because they’ve blatantly asked for the media to objectify them.  And, in a striking departure from my typical sexual modus operandi, I am happy to take this direction.  The team has posed for numerous shirtless pics and deluged social media with same.  Prior to the Olympics, all-around national champion Sam Mikulak wondered how to get the attention of the American people (and, perhaps, score some financially lucrative endorsement deals post-Rio).  His answer?  “Maybe compete with our shirts off.  People make fun of us for wearing tights.  But if they saw how yoked we are maybe that would make a difference.”  I don’t know exactly what this “yoked” is, but I’m all for anything that delivers a little flesh.