by Mark Finkelstein October 1, 2006 - 15:28 To save you the trouble, let me sum up Joan Vennochi's Boston Globe column of today, Carnage on the streets falling on deaf ears: - Violent crime is increasing. - It's Bush's fault because he's not sending enough money to local governments. - He doesn't care about the uptick because the victims tend to be young black men. - Oh, and to heck with the Constitution. There. That wraps it up nutshell. My favorite bit is Venocchi approving citation of L.A. police chief William Bratton: ``The federal government has stepped back significantly...