Finally saw An Inconvenient Truth. Fascinating and disturbing. Learned a few things I didn’t know before (like the actual ginormous sizes of the Antarctic ice shelves that have melted in the last few years, for example).
Gore was funny, quick, & highly entertaining. Where was this guy 6 years ago?? I was reminded (for the millionth time) how differently things might have turned out had he spent these past few years in the White House.
Someone wrote recently about the Mean Girls Syndrome and its relationship to why Bush got enough votes to (seemingly) win two elections – the tendency to hate geeks and nerds having been part of why neither Gore nor Kerry were unable to gain enough votes to reach an ass-kicking level of majority rule. Reminded me of something from The West Wing: no one likes the smartest kid in class.
That’s not entirely true, though – some of us like the smart kids.
