Bear with me on this one.  It's a bit of a rant. I was having a conversation with a dear friend of mine over beer the other night that drifted into something of a lament over the state of the world:  I don't watch DemocracyNow anymore, even though I hold it to be one of the more honest news sources available to me.  It's just too depressing to know the state of the things.  That there are