On the other hand, I'm praying McGreevey shuts up

As if Idaho Sen. Larry Craig didn't have enough problems, what with the foot touching and hand reaching and the resigning from the Senate over a guilty plea to disorderly contact because of what might have been the beginnings of a solicitation to have sex in a men's room, along comes Jim McGreevey with some advice.

In a letter published yesterday in the Washington Post, the former governor and all-time weasel wrote that he's praying that Craig to "come to peace with his truth, whatever that truth may be.''

In the first place, nobody asked McGreevey for his counsel and the worst kind of advice is the unsolicited kind. In the second place, when you do give unsolicited advice, you generally give it directly to person whose business you're sticking your nose in, so they can to tell you directly where to stick your advice and not send it to a newspaper. And in the third place, McGreevey admits he's giving advice on a subject he knows absolutely nothing about - namely, Craig's "truth.''

Once McGreevey starts seminary, I'm sure he'll come across passages in the Bible where God strikes a couple of big mouths mute. Of course, God doesn't like to pull out all the stops like that right away. He usually relies on the common sense of the blabbermouth to please, just shut up.