* For Pakistan. Peace and reconciliation.
* For Dick Cheney: Impeachment.
* For Big Media. Some soul and integrity.
* For lending regulators: Laws against luring buyers into homes they can’t afford
* For the NRA, humility in the face of massacres by kids bearing stolen assault rifles.* For patriots wanting to do more in the “War on Terror,” here's a little package of hardship.
Nothing so severe as what our parents and grandparents faced during the Great Depression
and War War II, just more challenging than, say, going shopping for America and pasting faux
yellow ribbons on your SUV. How about some good, stiff incentives for parking your guzzler
in favor of car-pooling, biking, running, walking and mass transit? How about "green" light bulbs
and a better insulated house? How about lowering the thermostat two degrees?
* For R&D departments at our nation's industries and colleges. A crash program
to design affordable cars that get 50 miles to the gallon. An all out effort to develop hydrogen,
geo-thermal, solar and wind power.
* For Oak Ridge and TVA: A phase-out of nuclear technology, so the world might with authority
