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...Paying More for Gas, Voluntarily With his proposal for broad new energy taxes, Michael Kinsley gets my vote for insight of the year [Dec. 22]. I don't like high gas prices any more than the next guy, but I would rather put the money to good use in the U.S. than send it to OPEC. The American people have demonstrated beyond a doubt that they can and will get by with less gas if there is a compelling reason in the form of a higher price at the pump. The enormous, unstated side benefit of Kinsley's proposal...
Winter swimming has been popular in Scandinavia and Russia for years, but the most intense thing I've heard is this guy in Antarctica who jumped into a hole in the ice. I can't believe that. Hats off to him. We also got an e-mail two years ago from some of our troops in Iraq who did a New Year's Day plunge in Saddam's pool. I think that's pretty great...
...Latin America, going to small villages and sitting with this kind of man, listening to their oral tradition, to the beauty of their history, to the wisdom of their culture. And they shared it with me. And now here I am, the policeman, here I am the bad guy, here I am the occupier. And I can't talk to this man. You know how much he could tell me under different circumstances?" And I say, that's an example...
...Marie-Gabriel says he saw similar potential in mocking the sparkling, de rigueur New Year's Eve festivities that many French admit to hating. "It started with me and another guy realizing most New Year's Eves in France are just really boring evenings people are forced into with others they neither know nor like," he recalls. "So we started holding anti-New Year protest parties for people wanting an alternative - and an excuse to demonstrate! Sure, 98% of France thinks we're losers, but the 2% who get it make it worthwhile...
...flying all over the province and building like they did when the Berlin Wall came down is because they don't have any cash," says Major Tim Hunt, the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment's liaison to the provincial government. "They literally don't have a bill to hand this guy and say, 'You're paid.' So if you can't pay anybody, you can't do any work." (See pictures of U.S. troops' 5 years in Iraq...