It's Getting Funnier by the Minute

I am amazed by the amount of details that goes public in the Larry Craig ordeal. In case you still don't know what this ordeal is, it's the Idaho senator (Republican) being arrested for trying to solicit sex in the Minneapolis airport men's bathroom.

Several things still fascinate me even after days of continuous media coverage on the case:

(1) Do undercover cops just randomly decide to show up at an airport bathroom (of all places!) and see if anyone finds them hot enough to risk the embarrassment and the possibility of arrest to initiate sex?

Or is this whole thing planned out, an entrapment targeting the poor clearly-wrongly-accused senator? *ahem*

(2) It appears the two gentlemen were in separate stalls while the majority of the incident occurred. Funny - since you may not even have seen your potential sexual partner before you signal interest.

How does one really have any clue at all whether one's stall neighbor could potentially be interested in sex? Does it require a certain "Gay-dar", are they merely random thoughtless attempts, or did Mr. Undercover give the senator a little wink?

I mean, how many of you have experienced a little foot bump from the next stall whilst in public restrooms? If someone slips their hand (right or left) under to my stall, I'll probably think they just need tissue.

(3) Why on earth would this undercover cop not wait until they're in a compromising (and clearly undeniable) position before he arrests Craig?

Maybe the thought of possibly seeing the senator's manhood was too much to handle.

(4) Most interesting is to see how Republicans, and others on the hill, react to the whole thing. It seems like the bulk of the mistake that people have a problem with is in the senator soliciting male sex, rather than any sex at all.

And I still maintain that what public officials do, or how they're like, in their private lives are none of our business. Americans are a bit too obsessed with elected officials' "moral fiber" for my taste. They're elected to do very specific things, and we really should stick to whether those things that they've promised to do are done. What they've promised their wives, now that's between them.

What I have a problem with is politicians being lying hypocrites. But even then, I don't really give a flying F as long as they're not extending that part of their character to their service of their constituents.

Unfortunately, 99.9999% of the time, they are.