Stupid Op-Ed of the Week:

You always get to read some really awful BS in the lamestream media. This essay by Jonathan Leake in the Times online is a gem:

For Al Gore revenge really has proved to be a dish best served cold. Seven years after losing the American presidential elections to George Bush on a legal technicality, Gore is turning his vanquisher into an object of global ridicule for his refusal to act on climate change.
He's already written The Assault on Reason, a lacerating attack on Bush, and laced his speeches on climate change with references to the president's refusal to accept the science of global warming.

Notice how Leake smugly refers to the "science of global warming", as if the matter is settled among climatologists. And how he asserts that Gore lost to Bush in 2000 on a 'legal technicality', as if the electoral college, which is the only recognized authority for the presidential election in the US constitution, is merely a 'technicality'.

Gore had crystallized the anger and frustration that is spreading through the Bali meeting over what is seen to be American intransigence over cutting emissions.
Earlier, the EU had also accused the United States of failing to act on the climate and threatening to boycott a U.S.-hosted conference of major economies next month.

So what if that doesn't work, Jonathan? Are you going to hold your breath until you turn blue? Or is Al going to take the internet back from us?

Bush has just 140 days left in office and is looking for a lasting legacy. Could Gore be trying to ensure that his presidency will instead forever be linked with climatic disaster?

Bush's term will end on January 20, 2009. That's 404 days from now. You'll have to deal with that evil climatic disaster-maker just a little while longer.