Excuse me if I am terribly confused here at the end of another daffy year. I try to keep up with our cultural and socially imperative trends. I really do. Sometimes I even think about embracing some of the most pressing sensibilities, like global warming, just to avoid getting so much poorly written mail. But the other day, we had something in the news that turned me upside down. I read about a guy who I would have thought is a modern urban hero, only to discover that he is a victim of, I don't know, the usual, I guess:...