Let's see: former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig gets arrested by an airport cop in the privacy of his own public restroom, yelling, "You wouldn't arrest me here if I were a liberal Democrat." A reporter asks George W. Bush about the incident. He says the officer acted "stupidly" and the next thing you know POTUS, Larry, the cop, and Dick Cheney are pouring shots at the Texas Ranch.

A joint statement says the national conversation on the matter is no longer stalled, although Larry wishes they'd used a different term. Dialogue over a cool one ... it works every time!

At minimum, I suspect, the new legislation will prohibit the Governor from sending trade missions to Iceland, and making sure that no taxpayer funds are used to promote Icelandic exhibits or books anywhere in our 92 counties. Any bookstore selling (or even giving away) expected biographies of Johanna Sigudardottir, the name of Iceland's new leader, will have to register with the Secretary of State or pay a hefty fine. That last name, by the way, will also be banned from any grade school spelling bee contests unless contestants are first required to write "God made Adam and Eve, not Diana and Johanna" one hundred times on the blackboard.

Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Indiana.

That cat has two tails...or is it two cats going after one tail?

Keynote speakers for the event are ESPN columnist LZ Granderson, ISU Professor Kand McQueen, and The L Word Writer/Director/Producer Rose Troche. Each will bring their own experiences and thoughts to reinforce the theme of the conference "Living Out Loud: Examining The Past To Enhance Our Future".

About a month ago Taysia Elzy, a transgender woman, and her partner were found murdered in their Northside Indianapolis home. When local news media began to identify Elzy by here male name, GLAAD and other local advocates, including Bil, contacted reporters to talk to them about how to report on transgender perople fairly and accurately. The Indianapolis Star got it right; WTHR-TV was a different story, It's reporter refused to follow Associated Press guidelines on referring to transgender persons. Bilerico carried these developments here, and GLAAD featured it in its "Best and Worst of National News" section. As a result of this and followup efforts, WTHR has revised its coverage to track AP guidelines. Good show, everyone!

Such elusive exactitude, coupled with the whole notion of what is or isn't frivolous legislative exercise, brings to mind a couple of other Hoosier legislative endeavors. The first, of which fellow contributor Doug Meagher reminded me in a recent comment to my amendment post, was about an 1897 attempt to write into law an exact definition of pi. The second, much more recently has to do with attempting to exactly define something else round: the official state pie. If you're not in a hurry and could use a trivia fix this cold Hoosier day, follow me past the jump:

At first blush, some differences stand out. They no longer use the term "union" to define the term "marriage" I don't quite know if that's significant or not. It's probably just a throwaway attempt to win over some pro-business folks who don't care much for unions anyway. But then I look beyond that and see they've done a remodeling job on the second sentence that makes the phrase "lipstick on a pig" seem wildly complimentary.

So it was with a great deal of pride and satisfaction that I share with Bilerico-Indiana readers the news that Indychoruses was recently recognized and honored at the annual Lambda Legal dinner in Indianapolis last weekend. They deserve every accolade for a lead role in building bridges of understanding through music.

You'll recall Minneapolis. That's where just after Labor Day John McCain tried to annul his marriage to the Bush Administration. Annulments differ from divorces in that, in theory, the former are treated as if no marriage ever occurred in the first place. The Obama campaign doesn't buy that, though, and have the wedding (and wedding night) pictures to prove otherwise.

Minneapolis is also the site of that Interstate 35 bridge across the Mississippi that collapsed and was going nowhere for a while. And speaking of "nowhere", and its chilly Alaskan connection, we have our own Fridge to Nowhere. Talk about a local scandal.

McCormack's main theme is that the Republican Party is riddled with hypocrisy concerning "family values" issues, particularly those concerning sexual morality, and he provides some 100 examples, ranging from the well known episode concerning Idaho Senator Larry Craig (my sentimental favorite to be John McCain's running mate), to those of much lesser known GOP office-holders and a few staffers. I'm largely in agreement with the author's overall thesis, but just as I finished reading the book John Edwards confirmed the National Enquirer's reports of his extra-marital trysts. This came too late to include him as Example Number 101 of such hypocrisy.......oh, wait.....maybe I've got him confused with Joe Lieberman concerning any political cross-dressing. But I digress...read on.

Yep, as Andrew Sullivan puts it, Craig's, own marriage is based on a lie, and prostitute-client Vitter isn't exactly a poster child for "one man, one woman" (at one time) either. The measure doesn't stand a proverbial snowball's chance of getting a 2/3 vote in both Houses (much less perhaps even a hearing in the middle of the summer of an election year), but it's probably lame-duck Larry's last chance to legislatively say "I'm not gay, I've never been gay", and add: "and even if I were I wouldn't want to be in a gay marriage......especially in the Minneapolis airport during the Republican Convention."

This time from Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where a naked man in a portable toilet got stuck there and had to call 911 to get rescued. The item didn't say whether or not Lebanon has an airport, let alone an airport restroom, so I should have known it was a false lead.

Sorry. But I'll still wait and see if Larry's contemplated book will have a disclaimer on the back like: "I am not from Lebanon, Pennsylvania... I have never been in a portable potty in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, even with my clothes on. I doubt if they have a gay bar there which I still woudln't go to even if I were "that way"... which I am not now nor have I ever been."

So much for his stance in Pennsylvania.

I doubt it if he'll ask me, but in case he does, please feel free to comment with your suggestions on a suitable title for the Idaho Senator's anticipated effort. I'm still thinking about it. By the way, I think NASA frowns on orbital book signings, especially when the toilets still aren't functional.