Infinitive Splitter

This is a chart of natural-gas costs in my house for the same seven-month period in two consecutive years. You’ll notice that we’re paying about 40 percent less for heat this winter than we paid last winter.

Al Gore can work himself and his hippie friends into a craze if that’s what he wants; me, I’ll just enjoy the 70-degree January Saturdays and hope that, when the world ends, my death will be quick and painless.

(You might think this post would have made more sense two weeks ago, since it’s 26 degrees in Washington today — and feels like 16. But you’d be wrong: tomorrow’s expected high temperature is 53 degrees.)