  Recent Monte Carlo simulations (A. G. Moreira and R. R. Netz: Eur. Phys. J. E
{\bf 8} (2002) 33) in the strong Coulomb coupling regime suggest strange
counterion electrostatics unlike the Poisson-Boltzmann picture: when
counterion-counterion repulsive interactions are much larger than
counterion--macroion attraction, the coarse-grained counterion distribution
around a macroion is determined only by the latter, and the former is
irrelevant. Here, we offer an explanation for the apparently paradoxical
electrostatics by mathematically manipulating the strong coupling limit.
