Our independent American spirit requires that we be beholden to nothing, so if a behavior becomes habitual it is labeled as bad.  Habits are enslaving, the ethic goes, made to be broken.  The powerful Puritan vein still runs deep.  It's time we all thought more like the French.  Add a cheese course to your menu.  Resolve to work less, not more.  Drink wine with lunch.

Michael Segell, MSNBC, This year, resolve not to resolve.