and it may be coincidence, but coming across Oscar Wilde may be coincidence becoz the last person I was googling was Larry Craig

and I have made it a practice to look at a couple of McClatchy papers now and then and ya have to be real careful of the spelling becoz it is a tricky name, but anyway, the Idaho Statesman has a whole timeline of the Larry Craig issue.

And at the time and even now, I was against the prosecution and the summary resignation, becoz it did not seem that wagging your hand under a stall warrants a prosecution and plea.

It seemed simply ludicrous.

next time, they will jump on somebody becoz they scratched their nose or sneezed or coughed, becoz they will say, everyone knows it Means Somethang.

Well, that's just ridiculous.

But if ya check the Idaho statesman, they are also concerned that the Gay thang surfaced in 1982, then he married a chick with 3 children and vehemently denied it, then also that he repeatedly said he is not gay and the baseball team gave out bobble head dolls and some dolls apparently say the phrase, then he voted against hate crime bill including sexual orientation and in December 5 different people came up and gave various stories of gay type encounters with him including they say on Capitol Hill and in the same airport etc.

The Idaho Statesman also got a Pulitzer nomination for the breaking news aspect of the story. And they have an Asian publisher appointed by this McClatchy people folks.

Anway, whatever, the issue is that that was the second reason we did not want it pursued, we were tired of the gay bashing crap.

The other feller, Mark Foley, was a different case, he was a predator, even though his victims were the holy moly intern types who seemed to be scrub faced White Holy Republicans kept quiet about his crap but boasted or complained about it privately and didnt make a ruckus about it in their communities becoz their target would have been a fellow White Holy Republican.

But never mind the annoying aspect of the victims, their perky White Holy Republicanhood, the fact that he was a predator who abused his office was the deciding issue.

Larry Craig running from the stigma of gay dom is a different issue and now he has stayed in, he should think about coming out of the closet and apologizing to gay folks for betraying them and stuff like that.

Just come clean and start taking responsibility and show how difficult it is to be a gay man who is also a cowboy from a Western state and a Senator.

Go on, be brave.