TV doesn't get much better than this. Oh, we're not talking about the (possible) finale of Desperate Housewives--although we'll be catching you up on that in a bit (with some spoilers).

  No, we're talking about the eight men that have come forward to say they had sex with or were propositioned by Sen Larry Craig. Not surprisingly, Craig has denied the allegations of the men (one of whom is Mike Jones the same hustler that had a good ol' time with preacher Ted Haggard). But we remain shocked and appalled by this news--how could that many men WANT to have sex with Craig, let alone admit to it??  In actuality only four men had the good sense not to allow themselves to be identified--the shame of being with the hypocrite Senator might be to devastating were it to become public.

 In a related story, there's nothing new to report on Craig's Senate buddy Trent Lott and the gay rumors swirling around him except that there are more reports surfacing confrming that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has some dirt on Lott that may still surface. 

 

           


 The question on Desperate Housewives may not be which characters will survive, but rather will the show survive? Was the tornado that struck Wisreria Lane and their mythical town of  Fairview another "jumping the shark" milestone in TV history?  Or will the show pull itself out of the rubble, dust itself off, and start fresh again?
That's the risk when a disaster is used as a ratings grabber.

  At the beginning of the episode we were warned that one of the husbands would die as would a friend. It looked like crotchety Mrs McCluskey and Lynette's husband Tom were the doomed characters until Gabby's estranged hubby Mayor Victor showed up and got impaled by one of the pickets from a nearby fence. THAT was a priceless moment.

 Not so priceless was the tiresome junkie plotline of Susan's hubby Mike the plumber and the sappy resolution. The same for the "Dynasty/Dallas" style melodrama of Gabby & Edie ad their catfight turned hand-holding in the middle of the storm.

 The best plotline goes to the Katherine/Bree showdown in which a secret was revealed---the reason why Katherine & hubby left Chicago and returned to Wisteria Lane. In involved the stalker patient whose demise
was the best darkly comic moment of the entire tornado plot.

 Missed opportunity? The gays, of course. The gay couple was nowhere to be seen during this Wizard of Oz moment. A twister and there are ZERO references, even subtle ones, to the movie? How tragic! 

 At the end we see one husband (Victor) die, and the closest thing to a "friend" is possbly....Carlos? Did DH kill him off too? Or is he going the way of the old plot device--- a coma. Think about it. Gaby's access to Carlos' hidden money in the Cayman Islands flew away--literally. And on his website actor Ricardo Antonio Cahvira mentions OTHER projects he's working on. So it makes sense that both Carlos & Victor would be gone, leaving Gaby a double widow.

 Time will tell----and we may have a LONG time to wait if the strike isn't resolved soon.