Doug Clifton, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has his nose bent out of joint over Ohio concealed carry. His newspaper decided to publish the personal information of every Northern Ohio citizen who has applied for and received a concealed carry permit. In retaliation, Ohioans for Concealed Carry decided to publish his personal information.

Ohioans for Concealed Carry, the lobbying arm for proponents, posted my name, home phone number, address and a map to my home on its Web site. It also reported what I paid for my house in 1999 - $550,000 - my wife's name - Peg - and that I have two children and two grandchildren (in fact, I have three).

The posting, I gather, had two purposes. The first was to say "turnabout is fair play": Public records are public records, and you're not exempt.

The second was to intimidate. Why else run a map?

Calls home began flowing shortly after the posting went up at noon on Wednesday. Because I was at the office, my wife bore the brunt, though most of the callers were polite. (One apologized to her and told her it was "just your moron husband" he had a problem with.) A few, predictably, were ugly.

A map to his house? I wonder where they got that information. (At one point they had linked that post.)

Clifton is practicing quite the double standard. He is posting personal information about concealed carry permit holders, but that's the public's "right to know". But when his personal information is published, clearly it's "intimidation".