Because I'm immature, and because I fear that any writing I do on politics today will be petulant, I offer the following

A context-free selection from today's New York Times story about Sen. Larry Craig's continuing legal troubles:

Mr. Martin disagreed with Judge Hudson’s description of the complaint. “We don’t know how long the crack is, how big the crack is,” Mr. Martin said. “We don’t know,” he said, if Senator Craig simply glanced at the crack twice “or if it was continuous staring.”

I refuse to believe that nobody in the Times' copyediting process didn't at least giggle when reading that paragraph.