from cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, who’s certainly qualified to serve in that role. In a long, thoughtful blog entry he reports on the barrage of nasty email he receives daily, hourly, from the hard-core right. He says, “…[it] makes you wonder, for the first time in your life, even including the years of Reagan and Bush the elder, if this country is actually, literally, genuinely headed for something more frightening than you’d ever thought possible.”