Boy, the Washington Post really knows how to pick America’s heroes. On the front page of today’s Metro section, its praise of Arlington County’s greenhouse-gas reducers begins this way:

Over the years, residents of the Fairlington neighborhood in Arlington County have grown accustomed to the site of a tall, lanky figure going through the trash bins outside their homes. No matter– it’s just their county board president, Paul Ferguson, making sure they’ve recycled their cardboard toilet paper rolls properly.