Gore pays a visit to Congress

Up on the Hill yesterday Al Gore lit into Congress with a message that was sometimes preachy, sometimes science class, but all Al in the way that is purely Al. The Oscar-winning message is that of global warming, or climate change, and potential far reaching solutions that seemingly don’t reach far enough. Al seems always dodgy around the central concept of enacting a viable renewable energy structure within the monstrous framework of a free market economy’s vicious hunger for profit. The logic almost always terminates in a frustrating reduction of everything to the facile oxymoron of “sustainable growth”, which is impossible for life in our finite planetary container.

At one point Gore flares, “The planet has a fever”, to which an unconfirmed source purports someone yelled back “and the only prescription is more COWBELL!!” Although that is just hearsay…..