MINNEAPOLIS � When tourists ask for the bathroom at the Minneapolis airport lately, it's usually not because they have to go.
It's because they want to see the stall made famous by U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's arrest in a sex sting.
"It's become a tourist attraction," said Karen Evans, spokeswoman at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. "People are taking pictures."
Craig was arrested June 11 by an airport police officer. The Idaho Republican pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
Craig has since said his guilty plea was a mistake. His request to withdraw the guilty plea will be heard on Sept. 26, just four days before he plans to step down from his Senate seat.
Just 15 minutes into her shift on Friday, Evans said she had been asked directions to the new tourist attraction four times. Other airport workers field the same question.
"It's by the Lottery shop, right next to the shoeshine shop," said newsstand worker Abdalla Said, adding he gets the question daily.
On their way to Guatemala, Jon and Sally Westby, both of Minneapolis, made a visit.
"We had to just stop and check out the bathroom," Sally Westby said. "In fact, it's Jon's second time � he was here last week already."
The fact that the mass media and a majority of Americans would identify "Spygate" as involving the New England Patriots, rather than something the CIA, FBI or NSA, might have done.
On the other hand, crooked stuff is supposed to go on in Washington and other world capitals. But messin' with football? Well, that's just un-American.
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And, drawing from a history of hunting down and investigating child molesters and sexual deviates, I venture into the bog of sports-blasphemy, not expecting to come out smelling well. But, I'll say it anyway: What's the likelihood that this was Bill B.'s first go at cheating? I never arrested a child rapist who had just committed his first child sex crime. Does anyone, besides those who think OJ is innocent of those murders, think the coach just had a cool idea one night and put it into play on game day? Not me. Can't believe I didn't exit only and bad-mouthed a legend.
I always thought the introduction of the designated hitter rule in the American League was a sign. Then they started using aluminum bats in Little League and high school......
I think I already feel the first tremors.
