Ocean City, Maryland is a blue-collar resort town featuring a thin strip of beach sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and dozens of condo high-rises, which themselves back up to the traffic-snarled Coastal Highway.  It's not the type of place Maryland's liberal elite favor, unless it's a necessary photo-op or a convention.  But for your average Joe from Maryland or elsewhere on the mid-Atlantic, it offers an affordable family vacation, and some folks just like the honky-tonk atmosphere.  I know I did in my younger days.  A chief beach attraction for most guys is lots of almost naked women – almost meaning flimsy tops and bottoms at Ocean City.  Seems that has not been the case recently, with some ladies going topless.  You won't get an argument from me, but families with small children demurred and lodged complaints with the city.  The city sought to enforce its pre-existing ban on topless women and predictably...(Read Full Post)