Thanks to all of you who have written in support of calling out asshats for being asshats. It makes my heart glad to know there is still some heartbeat left in honesty. Political Correctness hasn't taken over completely, although it continues to hypnotize huge swaths of the populace into limp, shallow compliance to someone else's goals and directives at least as much as it protects the defenseless. Still, we cannot indict the asshats without indicting ourselves, for they are of us. Sometimes when I need to feel that people are not headed enthusiastically en masse and without brakes or foresight…