On December 24, 2001 we wrote an editorial satirizing the human greed and mismanagement that was interfering with gas pipeline project advancement. In those days, Alaskan leaders and their supporters were engaged in the beginning of a decade-long fest of spending gluttony and tax increases to support self gratification of one generation at the expense of those to follow.     Leaders professed that because of the natural resource blessings graced on the state, those resources had almost mystical value on the world market, unaffected by a growing burden of [...]