Al Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason, came out this week. There is an excerpt in Time Magazine if anyone else is interested. The three pages in Time are quite good.
But I wanted to mention a wonderful, wonderful sight from Tuesday. At the large university I attend there was a group of students holding signs, apparently boycotting Al Gore, or his book, or something. I didn't talk to them. But one of the signs being held up read:
"JUST LIKE THE LUDDITES OF THE 19TH CENTURY AL GORE REPRESENTS THE DESTRUCTION OF HUMANITY."
I'm serious. The sign which was boycotting a book called the Assault on Reason made the above argument. It might be one of my all time favorite protest signs. It shows a committment to creativity while extending absolutely no interest in what the Luddites, or Al Gore, represent. Priceless.
waste some time with animated Al Gore:
To see Al Gore argue with Bender about Global Warming, click here.
To see what the world would be like if Al Gore won the 2000 election, click here.
11 comments:
As my wife only knows way too well, I'm not a big fan of Al Gore. his global warming movie is overblown and has lots of bad bad science. He speaks doom on Global warming, yet consumes 20 times as much electricity as the average family. Sure he can buy carbon offsets, but the key is using less, not acting like a latter day medieval noble buying indulgences for his sins. And he lost the election in 2000.
oh man...you are talking to Gore's no. 1 fan...chris is going to freak!
njdt. why do you have to live in dc? i wish we could in sit in a bar sometime and just shoot the shit.
and i am a fan of gore's. a huge one.
czf. boston. 3 weeks. lots of beer. and then we'll duke it out. and if doesn't come to blows then i'll take it to your court. that's right. poetry slam.
it's on, beeotch
just to show that i'm a nice guy. here's link to an article in the Latimes entertainment section:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-et-cause25may25,1,3447314.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews
It just seems like that Luddites protest sign is way to long to be a protest sign... they need to be quick and snappy.
that and if Al Gore is like the Luddites, then he eventually will be an ineffectual footnote in history, so what in the hell are they protesting?
DOWN WITH LOOMS!!! DOWN WITH TEXTILE MANUFACTORIES!!!
what?
(the Luddites destroyed machines in textile factories). I wasn't the one saying that, I just thought I would explain for them.
DO NOT EXPLAIN FOR THE LUDDITES. AL GORE YOU ARE NO LUDDITE. NO MORE TEXTILES!!
unless said textiles are made by textile workers and not through the use of newfangled machineries which cost hard-working folk their livelihood. HIZAH!
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