NEWS UPDATE: Bathroom breaks careers

Normally, you would find a movie review here. But something extraordinary happened today.

One of my roommates piped up to defend Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after he was arrested in June for using foot and hand signals in an airport toilet stall to solicit sex from an undercover cop. (Read the official police report here at The Smoking Gun.)

Maybe the guy really does crap with a "wide stance," my friend argued - a defense attorney at heart. And maybe he really did just drop something, and was trying to pick it up. Maybe the whole thing was a terrible and embarrassing misunderstanding.

Even if this were the case, justice still has been served.

Craig is only the victim of the hostile, anti-gay culture he has done his best to foster. And if he is, in fact, the hapless victim of homophobia run amok, who is to blame?

People like Craig.

Either way you look at it, Craig is paying for his crime.

What a deal

Craig's fellow Republican Florida state Rep. Bob Allen was arrested about a month later. He was considerably more blunt.

As the Orlando Sentinel reports, an undercover cop was hanging out near a park public bathroom. The officer was staking out a nearby condo, watching for a burglar. The cop went into the bathroom to wash his hands. No paper towels.

So, our officer walked into the extra-big stall (you know, the one for the handicapped). He must have done this extra sexily, because Rep. Allen couldn't resist.

"Allen first peeked over the door and then stepped inside, he said.

Allen proposed the two go across a nearby bridge because 'it's quiet over there' and he would perform a sex act on the officer for $20, the affidavit said. They walked to Allen's car, where the officer identified himself and arrested Allen."

This sex act, in case you were wondering, was a "blow job," according to the police report. That's right. Allen wanted to pay the cop and give him a blow job.

Well, I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I'm going to need to have my rent money ready in a couple of days and, uh -- well, ladies, I'm willing to negotiate.