We’re living in some nasty times.  Conservatives accuse liberals of empathy, as though it’s a bad thing.  That’s already one of those You-can’t-make-this-shit-up things.  We hear some sane news commentators and saner comics attacking Glenn Beck’s outrage-du-jour.  Everyone to the left of Genghis Kahn has noticed that Faux News has moved beyond car-crash journalism...