Al Gore's Tin Ear

Now look, I believe in the case for global warming. The Corsair is not some crazy Evangelical with a witch-doctorate from Bob Jones U shouting "blashemy!" against science and the laws of nature.

I am not Rush Limbaugh. The Corsair is a pretty even-handed guy who likes to refer to himself as a pirate in the third person. *Ahem* That having been said: I believe that the rising in the Global mean of the sea level is sufficient to prove that greenhouse emissions have increased as a result of aggressive human industrial activity in the last two centuries.

(So there all of you who thought I was shallow ...;)

But good politics is one part visionary idealism and one part sceptical realism (throw in blind luck there for good measure, my little pommies). Al Gore appears to be trying to gain ground in his vision quest after that disaster of a Presidential campaign in which he had Naomi Wolf dressing him in neutral earth tones trying to be an alpha male.

Al Gore also doesn't seem to have much of that aforementioned blind luck category, no?

But Al Gore is psycho to deliver his Global Warming speech in New York on a fuckingfrigid! day like today.

No punch lines, no jokes, just scorn (averted gaze).

Al ... like, couldn't you have scheduled the speech in San Fransisco? Or even Atlanta?

Sheesh.

Ares men are like Don Quiote's rearin for the good fight while subtly sabotaging their own efforts in the process.

And a little Don Q for the Goremeister:

"'Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. 'What we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the vanes that turned by the wind make the millstone go."

"'It is easy to see,' replied Don Quixote, 'that you are not used to this business of adventures. Those are giants, and if you are afraid, away with you out of here and betake yourself to prayer, while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat.

"So saying, he gave the spur to his steed Rocinante, heedless of the cries his squire Sancho sent after him, warning him that most certainly they were windmills and not giants he was going to attack."

Update: The Lowdown.