Al Franken is out. He volunteered to be thrown off a cliff. Now, this gives me one less liberal, or ‘progressive’, that will give this gastroenterologist heartburn. However, as a man who does his best to use honest weights and measures, I find his ouster to be deeply troubling. This was not the senate’s finest hour. What caused the stampede of his fellow Democrats last month to demand his ouster? Yes, there were new allegations, but they didn’t seem to be qualitatively different from the prior ones. What pushed a largely silent Democratic caucus into a chorus of indignation? Was this fair? 'Mmmm, that was tasty!' If the charges against him – which he largely denies – are true, then he was clearly a sophomoric boor, who behaved improperly during his prior career as an irreverent comedian. While his prior actions were offensive and wrong, I don’t think he merits being swept into the expanding cesspool of sexual harassers – men who preyed upon women using
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