Years ago, Tom Wolfe published a funny piece dealing with the reappearance during the Summer of Love of diseases never seen in the modern epoch.  Wolfe's overall term for these disorders was, if I recall correctly, "The Crud."  Doctors were unfamiliar with these conditions and in some cases uncertain as to how to treat them.  Some of those children of nature ended up with chronic disorders. This served as a life lesson for the counterculture, most of whom resumed bathing.  But now, fifty years later, we – at least those of us in California – are about to receive another such lesson, this one more drastic and widespread. Over the past year or so, AT readers have derived quite a few laughs over what has come to be called the "s‑‑‑ map," a map of the neighborhoods of San Francisco in which the streets are inundated with human waste left by the homeless.  (Some commentators assumed that...(Read Full Post)