Senator Craig needs to watch out for those TTTs.

I think this about sums it up:

Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33540

"Senator Craig May Resign Today"

The guy was a homophobic bigot in the Senate. What goes around cums around.

Just to update the reporting on the Iowa same-sex marriage story, this morning two students from Iowa State University became the first same-sex couple to be married. They got their license, found a state judge who was willing to grant them a waiver of the three-day waiting period, and found a Unitarian Minister who was willing to do the ceremony. (The approached a synagogue first, but the rabbi was out at the cemetery and since the guys weren't Jewish, he wasn't inclined to do it for them anyway, he later told a reporter in a phone interview -- although he quickly said he'd do a same-sex ceremony for a Jewish couple.) Fewer than two dozen same-sex couples had put in their license applications when the County Recorder got the word from the courthouse that the judge was granting the county's motion to stay the ruling pending appeal. The judge, Robert Hanson, filed his stay order around 11:30, just an hour after Tom McQuillan and Sean Fritz got hitched.

So McQuillan and Fritz are the only same-sex couple to have actually married in Iowa as a result of yesterday's ruling, and the continuing validity of their marriage might be debated as a result of today's events. The other folks who got licenses have to wait three business days, and I'm wondering whether those licenses are still valid in light of the stay?

Still to be heard from: Maryland and Connecticut highest courts heard arguments in their marriage cases long enough ago that I've been checking their websites daily for the opinions, and the California argument is sometime off in the future. We're also waiting on a ruling from the Rhode Island Supreme Court over whether R.I. courts can grant divorces to same-sex couples who were married in Massachusetts.

Watch for Craig to resign late Friday afternoon or early Saturday morning. These are the slowest news times of the slowest news cycle of the whole year, except maybe Christmas.

Remember, Ford announced his pardon of Nixon in the morning of Sunday, September 8, 1974 - the first Sunday after Labor Day when many of the press hotshots were hiding out on vacation after endless months of reporting on Watergate...

Craig is toast, effective Saturday AM, according to the AP.

The continuing comment on Craig is quite interesting. Today's NY Times op-ed, relating a sociology thesis from 1970 about the codes and signals of restroom assignations, was fascinating. And what it makes clear is that law enforcement should lay off. The complicated rituals pretty much assure that nobody who is uninterested in getting involved will be bothered, and that only an undercover police officer who signals his interest will get deep enough into the "exchange of signals" to be able to spring the trap and arrest somebody.

In other words, although many may find it unsavory that this stuff is going on in men's rooms, nobody is being hurt by it, and it doesn't make much sense to make it an occasion for law enforcement.

And then the Larry Craigs of the world can go on getting their quick sexual gratification and nobody gets hurt. On the other hand, for those who think hypocrisy in high office is lousy and should bring retribution, this is an occasion for celebration that one of the leading official homophobes of the Senate is gone -- presumably to be replaced by another of the same ilk, judging by the media discussion of who might be appointed by Gov. "Butch" to replace the errant Craig.