Just as the stories about 'not-gay' Idaho Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) had begun to fade, the DC gossipist Wonkette comes up with an amazingly juicy story from a man who claims to have had sex with Craig back in 1987.

Well, in fact, the word "juicy" doesn't quite capture it. Far better to use -- as Wonkette does -- the Dan Savage neologism 'santorum' to describe the detail of the report of the claim of David Phillips. Wonkette describes Phillips as "a local IT geek and bear-about-town."

Wonkette begins the tale:

It was late in the Spring of 1987, and Phillips was a graduate student at George Mason University. “One of my favorite hangouts was The Follies,” Phillips explains, referring to the notorious and now-closed go-go boy bar La Cage aux Follies on Capitol Hill.

One night, Phillips continues, “I followed [Craig] from The Follies to a Capitol Hill neighborhood, parking on the street no telling how far from his house. We walked up the alley and through the back door of a house, with him repeating several times, ‘You were never here. You don’t know me. Right?’ and me responding, ‘Right!’ in boyish submission."

Let us just say that the Idaho Statesman -- the Boise paper that did a two-year investigation of the pre-bathroom-bust charges that Craig is MSM -- didn't come up with anything even remotely as detailed or titillating as the account Phillips gives Wonkette.

Of course, it hard to imagine that this claim will have legs as a mainstream media story since it is so detailed and explicit that most papers would be embarrassed to tackle it all. So... surely... you've gone on to read it by now, no?