I read Bob Herbert's column in the Times today-which once again expresses his continuing disgust with Wall Street and the way our financial system is rigged to protect the most wealthy-in the same way I read all of Bob Herbert's columns: in a detached, world-weary, "yeah, whatever, hippie" mood. "I'm amazed at how passive the population has remained in the face of this sustained outrage," writes Bob, and my immediate reaction is, really, you are? We hate poor people in this country and venerate the most obscene exemplars of greed. We've spent the last thirty years being stunned into a stupor of consumption and impossible dreams of our [...]