19 month ago
adamrg : Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason - I don't usually buy or read books by politicians; but I think that Al Gore is now a philosopher and humanitarian in his own mind. So, time to go buy.
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19 month ago
plasticbag : Time Magazine's extract from Al Gore's book on defending reason is pretty decent... - Really interesting in terms of how politics has gone and how evaluation and reason is massively under attack from rhetoric and the visual image. Quite approve. Like Al Gore.
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason - Snippet from Al Gore's new book, covering the rottenness of the current circle-jerk between politicians and the media. Prediction: The book will be roundly dismissed by politicians and the media. [via] #
adamrg : Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason - Al Gore's missive on the Political/Media roundabout.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : There's a sort of interesting article on BBC News about Global Warming and Al Gore... - I'm a bit puzzled by the responsibility of organisations like the BBC to report on 'critics' who disagree with the overwhelming climate change consensus. If it was a gay issue that I felt strongly about, I might feel differently I suppose...
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21 month ago
plasticbag : There's an article on the BBC about Al Gore post-Oscar and whether the US is ready to warm to him... - Interesting question. From a geek perspective, most of the Gore coverage has been pretty glowing since the Wired article a couple of years ago. There's this energy consumption debacle going on, but that seems more like an attack than an insight...
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24 month ago
deusx : IP: Al Gore's support of the Internet, by V.Cerf and B.Kahn [ I second - "We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolvin
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26 month ago
plasticbag : A Terrifying Message from Al Gore (via Futurama) - "The movie that could make you feel like you should probably do something"
Rod Begbie : YouTube - A Terrifying Message from Al Gore - Trailer for An Inconvenient Truth made by the chaps at Futurama. Your first (and only?) chance to hear Al Gore say the words "hybrid pimpmobile" [via] #
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plasticbag : A spoof of Al Gore that was put on YouTube, allegedly made by a teenager, may have been made by a PR firm with Exxon as a client - Wow, this is super low and horrible. Makes the whole Cillit Bang thing seem like a real PR victory in comparison. This is like Ethicopocalypse. I don't understand how these people sleep at night.
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31 month ago
jkottke : Funny but also depressing SNL bit with Al Gore last night, speaking as if he were President and Bush was the comissioner of baseball - Funny but also depressing SNL bit with Al Gore last night, speaking as if he were President and Bush was the comissioner of baseball. (via rw) [via]
deusx : Crooks and Liars - ""Saturday Night Live," opened their show tonight with Al Gore addressing the nation as if he was the President of the United States."
Rod Begbie : SNL: If Al Gore were President - Nicely done parallel-universe cold-open from last night's SNL. [via] #
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