Top Ten Years of the Decade

Judging by government and public policy:

• 2000
• 2006
• 2007
• 2005
• 2009
• 2008
• 2002
• 2001
• 2003
• 2004

Torches Are Good Too, Though

Is it just me, or are at least two guys in this Nepalese mob wearing The North Face brand coats?

If there's a better way to identify yourself as a Nepalese Maoist -- and simultaneously as a rich and fussy outdoorsman -- than by wearing a coat named after the Chinese side of Nepal's most famous mountain, I don't know what it is.