A friend writes from Portland, Oregon:
Al Gore was in town last night with an excellent (and eye-opening) presentation on Global Warming — a concept that continues to escape [the Bullshitter-in-Chief]. Can you imagine Georgie saying something/anything like:
“We’re entering — have already entered — a new phase of human history. The fundamental relationship between our species and our home planet has been utterly transformed.”
Al’s presentation had lots of (lovely) before and (sadly) after slides … leading into one of these split screens [showing] that two years ago he predicted the melting of Mt. Kilimanjaro’s snows within 15 years. Update: It is all “virtually gone” today.
I really enjoyed hearing him but just could not get it straight in my head that [the Bullshitter-in-Chief] is “ruining” the country when by popular vote Gore should be running it. Oh right, I remember now, we live in a nonsense vs. no-nonsense world — what was I thinking?
— Hammond Guthrie
