And another one bites the dust.

"I am not gay. I never have been gay."

Well, thankfully, it's over. Republican senator Larry Craig of Idaho, who is not gay--nor has he ever been gay--has taken the advice of his peers and resigned. Well not exactly.

They'd hoped he leave immediately. No, Craig set his final day as September 30th, leaving his republican co-workers in the senate and republicans across the nation cringing for another 30 days.

Mrs. Dada has suggested the reason for his leisurely departure is his desire to get in another year's service credit by staying until the end of the fiscal year. Or, or maybe it's his need to assure his health insurance transits smoothly into his "voluntary" retirement. (Mrs. Dada may be showing naïveté, I don't know, thinking as we lower class Americans do that our elite representatives are subject to the same rules of health insurance coverage as we plebs. )

Whatever the reason, I think it appropriate over the next month or so, wherever two or more of us simpaticos gather, we celebrate senator Craig's wise decision to retire with a few bars from that old Tony Orlando and Dawn Knock Three Times, to wit:

Hey guy what ya doin' in there
Sitting alone in your lonely stall while I'm beside you?
I can hear your music playin'
I can feel your body swayin'
Right next to me you don't even know me
I love you

Oh, my sweet guy
Knock three times on the stall wall if you want me
Twice on the pipe if the answer is no
Oh, my sweetness (knock, knock, knock)
Means you'll meet me in my stall, hey!
Twice on the pipe means you can't cause you're workin'!