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Josh Marshall on Al Gore winning a share of the Nobel Peace Prize:
You know, with Al Gore winning the Nobel Prize for his environmental activism, it really makes the Nader voters look prescient, doesn't it?
(24) #10/12/2007
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Like myself, Al Gore was flying on a plane when the final episode of The Sopranos aired on HBO and was unable to watch it live. Unlike myself, Gore called in a favor with the chairman of Paramount, who supplied him with a copy of the episode that was locked in a steel lockbox and delivered on the tarmac, to be watched only on the plane.
(1) # 7/2/2007
An Inconvenient Truth

Last night, I was faced with An Inconvenient Truth, mediated by the soothing drawl of Al Gore. Here's why you should see this movie:
- It's not boring.
- Seriously, it's quite visceral and compelling.
- It presents the Global Warming problem using elegant and thorough infographics.
- It unquestionably settles three issues which have unfairly been considered as in scientific doubt:
- This is an alarming problem right now, not just 100 years from now.
- There is incredibly strong evidence that not only does Global Warming exist, but that the "nature is cyclical" argument is frighteningly not comforting in our present situation.
- Some believe that since the planet has seen extreme temperatures in the past, there's no need for us to change our way of life to avoid what's inevitable. Gore particularly emphasizes that this perspective is both immoral and unethical. By not taking measures now, we will be in effect responsible for future Katrinas, and on a much grander scale.
- Al Gore is a funny and informative lecturer.
The film could've used 10% fewer shots of Al Gore pondering, contemplating his past, etc., but the point of these scenes got across: Gore has spent a significant part of his life on this issue, he truly cares about it, and he thinks you should, too.
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Let's move back 4 years from yesterday's election post: Here's Spike Jonze's short documentary on a day-in-the-life of Al Gore and his family, shown during the Democratic National Convention in 2000 but never televised. It was finally made available by the magazine The Believer via a DVD.
(3) # 6/2/2006
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President Al Gore speaks. "Unfortunately, the confirmation process for Supreme Court Justice Michael Moore was bitter and divisive."
(1) # 5/14/2006

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