When I read the title I was thinking something different.<p>Torture is a real and a nightmarish thing, and in this ever shrinking world of ours, we (i.e., Westerners) can no longer think of such horrors as existing only for other people in faraway lands.<p>Am I the only one who&#x27;s a bit uncomfortable tossing around the term to apply to a well paid professional who&#x27;s facing bureaucratic inefficiencies at work?<p>Or am I just being a sensitive ninny-nanny?