On behalf of Senator Larry Craig - whether he wants it or not - the ACLU has filed a brief arguing that “people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy.”
Gross.
Seriously - I don’t like being in a stall next to someone who is doing their normal bathroom business, let alone doing the nasty. And in a public restroom stall, there’s no better term for it, because “nasty” is exactly what that sort of behavior is.
I also can’t really figure out how one would expect privacy in such a location. Every cough, grunt and trickle echoes around the room for everyone to hear. This is not a scenario I am really comfortable even envisioning, let alone describing to you, my poor readers, who by now are probably making awful faces at your screens.
All I can say is that there’s not enough Lysol in the world…
Slow news day, Steve? Thanks for reminding me why “idle curiosity” is marked as sinful in the old catechisms. I just had to find out what you thought about … that. I hope you do a little purgatory time for this.
Not really sure how I should take that, Jeff. Hoping it’s a joke. Nobody’s ever wished me purgatory time before.
As for idle curiosity, this was a major headline today, and I thought the idiocy of it was worth highlighting.
I was joking about purgatory (which itself is probably a bad idea), half-joking about the rest. Maybe 3/4.
Sometimes I find that subtext - especially sarcasm - is really hard to detect in a comment box. Then I find myself going, “Whoa, he doesn’t actually mean that, does he?”
I’m sensitive about purgatory, because I am going to be spending a very looooong time there.