Thanks to politics, I&amp;#8217;m reminded that the stink season has started. And pity to us all. Seems GOP candidate Van Tran sent out a scratch-n-sniff mailer in his drive to unseat U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez in Orange County. &amp;#8220;Something smells rotten about Loretta. It&amp;#8217;s the stench of Washington.&amp;#8221; Yeah, yadda-yadda. Hard to imagine how the [...]