A complete failure of empathy

Saturday was my day to go walk the beach in Salisbury, MA and look for dead birds for the SEANET program. In summer, I gird my loins for a bad time on these walks, as the beach is buried under lolling, blubbery human forms and their mountains of plastic garbage. In winter, on the other hand, it's usually mostly deserted, left to the lolling, blubbery ha…