Republican Joe McCarthy was wrong. He self-destructed in front of God and everybody.

In the early 1950’s his opponents didn’t stop him, were in fact intimidated by him. As my friend Jason Osgood pointed out yesterday, Joseph Welch, who finally challenged McCarthy on national TV was in fact – like Joe McCarthy - a Republican attorney.

Welch asked McCarthy to justify his tactics and behavior as both were aware that a large national audience was watching.

If someone comes to meeting and releases a foul flatulence that drives everyone else out of the room, perhaps the best antidote is not to try to out-fart or attempt fart-suppression. Rather tallow those for whom the offender befouls the air see, hear and smell the act in the absence of outside attempts to deflect or redefine the action and odor.

Seems to me that if you try to shield others from the smell, your own shield will absorb so much of the smell that any who encounter your shield will notice that it smells just like the original offenders.

Therefore the perception is possible that there must not be any difference between the farters and the shielders.

Is this a time and opportunity to give them all the rope they need?